The Use and Representational Faithfulness of Graphs in Australian IPO Prospectuses
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for funding support. We thank the two anonymous referees, Rob Brown and workshop participants at Monash University, Clayton and AAANZ Conference 1997. We are grateful to Dean Hanlon for assistance with data collection and Dineli Mather for assistance with the design of the data base.
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