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Apr 9; 177(1): 7–11. doi: 10.1083/jcb.200611141PMCID: PMC2064100FeaturesError bars in experimental biologyGeoff Cumming,1 Fiona Fidler,1 and David
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L. Vaux21School of Psychological Science and 2Department of Biochemistry, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 3086Correspondence may also be addressed to Geoff Cumming (ua.ude.ebortal@gnimmuc.g) or Fiona http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2008/07/31/most-researchers-dont-understa-1/ Fidler (ua.ude.ebortal@reldif.f).Author information ► Copyright and License information ►Copyright © 2007, The Rockefeller University PressThis article has been cited by other articles in PMC.AbstractError bars commonly appear in figures in publications, but experimental biologists are often unsure how they should be used and interpreted. In this article we illustrate some basic features of https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2064100/ error bars and explain how they can help communicate data and assist correct interpretation. Error bars may show confidence intervals, standard errors, standard deviations, or other quantities. Different types of error bars give quite different information, and so figure legends must make clear what error bars represent. We suggest eight simple rules to assist with effective use and interpretation of error bars.What are error bars for?Journals that publish science—knowledge gained through repeated observation or experiment—don't just present new conclusions, they also present evidence so readers can verify that the authors' reasoning is correct. Figures with error bars can, if used properly (1–6), give information describing the data (descriptive statistics), or information about what conclusions, or inferences, are justified (inferential statistics). These two basic categories of error bars are depicted in exactly the same way, but are actually fundamentally different. Our aim is to illustrate basic properties of figures with any of the common error bars, as sum
I. Why do we use errorbars? It is a crime to plot measures of central tendency without an indication of their variability. http://www-psych.stanford.edu/~lera/290/errorbars.html Enough said! II. What do we use as errorbars? There are pretty http://rpsychologist.com/how-to-tell-when-error-bars-correspond-to-a-significant-p-value much two options: standard errors, or confidence intervals. These quantities are related. The confidence interval is the standard error multiplied by the critical value of a test statistic, which is either t or Z, depending on whether we know the population parameters or estimate them from a error bar sample. The choice really depends upon your rhetorical intent: different things can be concluded from the errorbars, depending on what you choose to plot. Standard errors From an overlap, you can conclude no significant difference Approximately 68% confidence interval for population mean Difference between means is hard to evaluate Confidence intervals Can't draw conclusions from overlap Exact confidence interval error bar psychology for population mean Difference between means from multiplying by root 2 Most papers I've read recently plot standard errors. I suspect an ulterior motive... III. Errorbars for between-subject means We have two ways of estimating the standard error: a local and a global estimate. Again, it's up to you which one you use. If you're going to be using within-subjects errorbars subsequently, then it's best to use the global estimate for consistency. Local estimate of the standard error Global estimate of the standard error Remember to multiply by the critical value of your test-statistic if you want confidence intervals! IV. Errorbars for within-subject means
The trick is to think about what is the best estimate of the error variance. When you do a within-subjects ANOVA, the analogue of the MSE is the mean square for the interaction of subjects and the effect you're testing. Basically, if you want to show differences between means on the basis of some factor, replace the MSE in the equation for between-subject means with whatever appears in the denominator of yourstatistics Share on: Introduction Belia, Fidler, Williams, and Cumming (2005) found that researchers in psychology, behavior neuroscience and medicine are really bad at interpreting when error bars signify that two means are significantly different (p = 0.05). What they did was to email a bunch of researchers and invite them to take a web-based test, and they got 473 usable responses. The test consisted of an interactive plot with error bars for two independent groups, the participants were asked to move the error bars to a position they believed would represent a significant t-test at p=0.05. They did this for error bars based on the 95 % CI and the group’s standard errors. The participants did on average set the 95 % CI too far apart with their mean placement corresponding to a p value of .009. They did the opposite with the SE error bars, which they put too close together yielding placements corresponding to p = 0.109. And if you’re wondering they found no difference between the three disciplines. Plots I wanted to pull my weight, and I have therefore created some various plots in R that show error bars that are significant at various p-values. Figure 1. Error bars corresponding to a significant difference at p = .05 (equal group sizes and equal variances) Figure 2. Error bars corresponding to a significant difference at p = .01 (equal group sizes and equal variances) Figure 3. Error bars corresponding to a significant difference at p = .001 (equal group sizes and equal variances) Based on the first plot we see that an overlap of about one third of the 95 % CIs corresponds to p = 0.05. For the SE error bars we see that they are about 1 SE apart when p = 0.05. R Code Here's the complete R code used to produce these plots 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47library(ggplot2) library(ggplot2) library(plyr) m2 <- 100 # initital group size, should be the same as m1 p <- 1 # starting p-value m1 <- 100 # mean group 1 sd1 <- 10 # sd group 1 sd2 <- 10 # sd group 2 n <- 20 # n per group s <- sqrt(0.5 * (sd1^2 + sd2^2)) # pooled sd while(p>0.05) { # loop til p = 0.05 t <- (min(c(m1,m2)) - max(c(m1,m2))) / (s * sqrt(2/n)) # t statistics df <- (n*2