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SUBMITTER: Correll M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6214189 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Correll Michael M Gleicher Michael M
IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics 20141201 12
When making an inference or comparison with uncertain, noisy, or incomplete data, measurement error and confidence intervals can be as important for judgment as the actual mean values of different groups. These often misunderstood statistical quantities are frequently represented by bar charts with error bars. This paper investigates drawbacks with this standard encoding, and considers a set of alternatives designed to more effectively communicate the implications of mean and error data to a gen ...[more]