Error bars on bar charts I understand. And maybe "histogram" is being used
loosely here. But why would you want an error bar on a histogram? Doesn't a
histogram simply show how many observations, in the sample, are in each of
several continguous range categories of a continuous variable? There's no
"error" to that, is there?
Just trying to understand these concepts myself.
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On Wed, 28 May 2003 11:53:43 +0100, Nick Cox wrote:
>Catherine Klapperich
>
>>How do you put error bars on histograms or bar plots? I am
>>using Stata 8 in Windows.
>
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