User:PeterLFlomPhD/Dynamite plot sandbox

A dynamite plot is a variation on a bar plot in which lines and whiskers are added to indicate either the standard deviation, the standard error, a confidence interval or some other measure of dispersion. Sometimes the lines go only upward from the bar, other times they go in both directions. Dynamite plots are not a standard statistical graphic - they are not mentioned in Cleveland's books, nor in Everitt's Dictionary of Statistics. but they are commonly used

Critiques
Dynamite plots have been critiqued for


 * 1) Providing too little information, scoring low on Edward Tufte's data-ink ratio.
 * 2) Not showing sample sizes
 * 3) Not showing the data not following Cleveland's rule to show the data.

Alternatives
Recommended alternatives depend on the sample size, both overall and in each bar.

Implementation

 * 1) Implementation in R
 * 2) Implementation in SAS