This synthetic data-set was constructed by the statistican Frank Anscombe to illustrate how residuals can be used to discriminate between data-sets that give identical fitted regression models. The six columns correspond to: 1. x=explanatory variable for each of responses 1, 2 or 3 2. y1=response 1 3. y2=response 2 4. y3=response 3 5. x4=explanatory variable for response 4 6. y4=response 4