--- "Newson, Roger B" <[email protected]> wrote:
> However, moleps probably should not produce these, as the reader
> usually also wants to know the lower limit as well as the upper
limit.
I agree with Roger, these error bars are intended to represent the
degree of uncertainty. By only representing half the confidence
interval you visually suggest you are twice as certain then you
actually are. That seems like very bad practice to me.
-- Maarten
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