{"id":64,"date":"2006-06-26T10:50:11","date_gmt":"2006-06-26T08:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/?p=64"},"modified":"2009-04-18T09:41:47","modified_gmt":"2009-04-18T07:41:47","slug":"chart-junk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/chart-junk\/","title":{"rendered":"Chart Junk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an example of the so called &#8220;Sectioned Density Plot&#8221;, which was recently published in &#8220;The American Statistician&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ingentaconnect.com\/content\/asa\/tas\/2006\/00000060\/00000002\/art00010;jsessionid=1f4g6jeslicbb.alice\">Vol 60, No. 2, 167-174<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"http:\/\/am.air.org\/help\/NAEPTextbook\/images\/SectionedDensityPlot.jpg\">\n<\/p>\n<p>\nUsing a simple histogram, maybe with an added density estimator, and\/or a simple standard boxplot for group comparison does the job here. No need to &#8220;invent&#8221; a new plot, which introduces more problems as it solves any.<br \/>\nActually this plot makes a good case against the use of graphics &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an example of the so called &#8220;Sectioned Density Plot&#8221;, which was recently published in &#8220;The American Statistician&#8221; (Vol 60, No. 2, 167-174). Using a simple histogram, maybe with an added density estimator, and\/or a simple standard boxplot for group comparison does the job here. No need to &#8220;invent&#8221; a new plot, which introduces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}