Re: Any online notes on when to use various types of graphs?

Marc Schwartz wrote: 
Bruce Weaver wrote:

Can anyone point me to some good online notes or guidelines on when to
use the various types of graphs (e.g., when to use line graph versus
barchart to display means from a study)?  I'd like to direct my class to
such a resource, but have not had any luck finding a good one thus far.

Cheers,
Bruce



Bruce,

Take a look at Frank Harrell's site at:

http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/twiki/bin/view/Main/StatGraphCourse

He has his handouts from a stats graphics course near the top of the
page and some additional helpful links at the bottom, including
Cleveland and Tufte. Their books would be excellent resources, of
course.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz
<Replying via Google Groups>


Thanks Marc. I've had a quick glance, and it looks like there's a wealth of info there. The trouble is that it's probably a bit too terse for the class I'm teaching presently. The class is called "advanced stats" (for 4th year psych students), but many students are still struggling with very basic concepts. So I need a resource that presents things in a fairly simple, catchy way. The style of David Lane's Hyperstat is what I had in mind (www.hyperstat.com).

Cheers,
Bruce

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