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Beyond Bar and Line Graphs: Time for a New Data Presentation Paradigm

PLOS Biology · 22 April 2015

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Reviews figures in leading physiology journals and shows that bar and line graphs of continuous data can hide the distribution of small samples. The authors argue for scatterplots, box plots and similar displays that show the underlying data, and provide free templates to help researchers adopt them.

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Weissgerber TL, Milic NM, Winham SJ, Garovic VD. Beyond Bar and Line Graphs: Time for a New Data Presentation Paradigm. PLOS Biology. 2015;13(4):e1002128. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002128

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