Message-ID: <47ECEE5D.5060504@vanderbilt.edu>
Date: 2008-03-28T13:10:53Z
From: Frank E Harrell Jr
Subject: Quick question: Does this graph have a name?
In-Reply-To: <16349649.post@talk.nabble.com>
mika03 wrote:
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p16349649/at-length.png
>
> Hi,
>
> I produced this graph with R and I am very happy with it. But now I wonder:
> Is this some standard way of displaying data and if so, does it have a name?
> (like Histogram, Box plot etc.)
>
> I need to explain the plot to people so knowing a bit more about what
> exactly this is, would certainly help ;-)
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
A far better approach to this stacked bar chart would be a two-way dot
chart which would also allow the inclusion of margins of error on the
point estimates.
--
Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and Chair School of Medicine
Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University