Streiner D L
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
Can J Psychiatry. 1997 May;42(4):388-94. doi: 10.1177/070674379704200405.
The vast majority of graphs appearing in the psychiatric literature consist of the traditional line graphs, histograms, and bar charts. Over the past decade, new graphing techniques have appeared which make the data easier to read and which present much more information than simply group means and confidence intervals. These methods include horizontal bar charts, dot charts, stem-and-leaf plots, box plots, and notched box plots. This paper describes these new techniques, as well as older ones, such as smoothing, and warns against using some of the options found in graphics programs: 3-dimensional (3-D) graphs, stacked graphs, and pie charts.
精神病学文献中出现的绝大多数图表都是传统的折线图、直方图和条形图。在过去十年中，出现了新的绘图技术，这些技术使数据更易于阅读，并且比简单的组均值和置信区间呈现出更多信息。这些方法包括水平条形图、点图、茎叶图、箱线图和带缺口箱线图。本文介绍了这些新技术以及诸如平滑等旧技术，并警告不要使用图形程序中的某些选项：三维（3-D）图、堆叠图和饼图。
