Standard deviation(SD)and standard error of the mean(SEM)have been applied widely as error bars in scientific plots.Unfortunately,there is no universally accepted principle addressing which of these 2 measures should ...Standard deviation(SD)and standard error of the mean(SEM)have been applied widely as error bars in scientific plots.Unfortunately,there is no universally accepted principle addressing which of these 2 measures should be used.Here we seek to fill this gap by outlining the reasoning for choosing SEM over SD and hope to shed light on this unsettled disagreement among the biomedical community.The utility of SEM and SD as error bars is further discussed by examining the figures and plots published in 2 research articles on pancreatic disease.展开更多
The caption of Figure 5 should be:Wind/WAVES type II burst starting around 14 MHz(∼12:05 UT,2017 September 6)and continuing down to∼100 kHz(09:00 UT,2017 September 7).The end time is marked by the short vertical lin...The caption of Figure 5 should be:Wind/WAVES type II burst starting around 14 MHz(∼12:05 UT,2017 September 6)and continuing down to∼100 kHz(09:00 UT,2017 September 7).The end time is marked by the short vertical line with its length indicating the bandwidth(70-130 kHz).The horizontal error bars signify the end time uncertainty.The vertical dashed line marks the SGRE end(06:28 UT,September 7);the horizontal dashed line represents the gamma-ray background.The shock arrival time at 1 au is labeled“SH”(Gopalswamy et al.2018).展开更多
基金BZ research was supported,in part,by the National Institutes of Health grant U24 AA026968the University of Massachusetts Center for Clinical and Translational Science grants UL1TR001453,TL1TR01454,and KL2TR01455.
文摘Standard deviation(SD)and standard error of the mean(SEM)have been applied widely as error bars in scientific plots.Unfortunately,there is no universally accepted principle addressing which of these 2 measures should be used.Here we seek to fill this gap by outlining the reasoning for choosing SEM over SD and hope to shed light on this unsettled disagreement among the biomedical community.The utility of SEM and SD as error bars is further discussed by examining the figures and plots published in 2 research articles on pancreatic disease.
文摘The caption of Figure 5 should be:Wind/WAVES type II burst starting around 14 MHz(∼12:05 UT,2017 September 6)and continuing down to∼100 kHz(09:00 UT,2017 September 7).The end time is marked by the short vertical line with its length indicating the bandwidth(70-130 kHz).The horizontal error bars signify the end time uncertainty.The vertical dashed line marks the SGRE end(06:28 UT,September 7);the horizontal dashed line represents the gamma-ray background.The shock arrival time at 1 au is labeled“SH”(Gopalswamy et al.2018).
