Re: st: RE: Error Bars on Histogram or Bar Plots

[Ernest Berkhout <ernestb@seo.fee.uva.nl>]

At 16:42 28-5-2003, you wrote:
> 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.
IMHO histogram is indeed not the correct term here. A barchart of means is 
the real issue here.


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