[R] Hopefully an easy error bar question

[Ben Bolker]

Martin Maechler <maechler <at> stat.math.ethz.ch> writes:

> 
> >>>>> "FEH" == Frank E Harrell <f.harrell <at> vanderbilt.edu>
> >>>>>     on Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:19:33 -0500 writes:
> 
>     FEH> See http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/DynamitePlots for many reasons not 
>     FEH> to use dynamite plots.
> 
> Ah!  Very good!  Let's hope this eventually leads to progress 
> i.e., to much less use of these..
> 
> Thank you, Frank!
> Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
> 
>     FEH> -- 

  Yes, but:

http://emdbolker.wikidot.com/blog:dynamite

(repeats Frank's criticisms, but also raises
the point that boxplots show the range of the
data, but not much about the statistical inferences
on the data ...)

  comments welcome.

  Ben Bolker