[R] Quick question: Does this graph have a name?

Frank E Harrell Jr f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu
Fri Mar 28 14:10:53 CET 2008


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



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