David Meyer, Achim Zeileis, Kurt Hornik Visualizing Independence Using Extended Association Plots ********************************************************* Association plots---a visualization technique for the independence problem in 2-way contingency tables---are extended in three directions: 1. The visualization is enhanced by using colors for the importance of the residuals. 2. The implementation currently available in R is improved using a more modular design and allowing a more flexible specification of plotting parameters. 3. Two methods for the use of multi-way tables are proposed.