Dear R-list, In the R-book, p.464, Michael Crawley recommends that error bars for bar plots of normally distributed continuous response variables with categorical explanatory variables be given by 1/2 of the least significant difference, where the least significant difference is defines as qt(0.975,degrees_of_freedom)*standard_error_of_the_difference. The idea is that the above quantity visually conveys whether or not the means are different more realistically than do standard errors. I have analyzed proportions with categorical variables using the glm function with a binomial error model. I wish to plot a bar graph with the height of the bars the proportions. Is there a way to define error bars analogous to the least significant difference bars described above that can convey the overlap of proportions? The experimentalists with whom I work just love error bars. I would like to make them as meaningful as possible. Thanks and best wishes, Rich ------------------------------------------------------------ Richard A. Friedman, PhD Associate Research Scientist, Biomedical Informatics Shared Resource Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center (HICCC) Lecturer, Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) Educational Coordinator, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (C2B2)/ National Center for Multiscale Analysis of Genomic Networks (MAGNet) Room 824 Irving Cancer Research Center Columbia University 1130 St. Nicholas Ave New York, NY 10032 (212)851-4765 (voice) friedman at cancercenter.columbia.edu http://cancercenter.columbia.edu/~friedman/ I am a Bayesian. When I see a multiple-choice question on a test and I don't know the answer I say "eeney-meaney-miney-moe". Rose Friedman, Age 14
Analog of least significant difference error bars for proportions
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