Error Bars Considered Harmful: Exploring Alternate Encodings for Mean and Error

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

• Publication date

  2014-11-06

• Fields of study

  Mathematics, Computer Science, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1109/TVCG.2014.2346298PMID 26356928PMCID PMC6214189
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