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. 2011 Apr 15;589(Pt 8):1861-3.
doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.2011.205062.

Show the data, don't conceal them

G B Drummond  1 , S L Vowler
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Show the data, don't conceal them

G B Drummond et al. J Physiol. .
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Figure 1
Figure 1. Comparison of a dot plot with a plunger plot
A, two datasets, with the same mean value, displayed as either dot plots or plunger plots. The bars are mean values: error bars indicate sem. B, subsamples of 6 data points from the above datasets. The line indicates the mean of these values.
Figure 2
Figure 2. Different types of error bar
In each pair of examples, 50 and 6 samples have been taken. The central line represents the mean value, and the error bars show the values stated. Note how the precision of the mean value (i.e. the sem and the CI of the mean) is affected by the small sample, whereas the indices of dispersion (SD and CI of the population) are less affected.
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Comment in

  • Statistical perspectives: all together NOT.
    Hopkins WG, Batterham AM, Impellizzeri FM, Pyne DB, Rowlands DS. Hopkins WG, et al. J Physiol. 2011 Nov 1;589(Pt 21):5327-9; author reply 5331-2. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.2011.218529. J Physiol. 2011. PMID: 22042548 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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