NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/comp/os/mswindo/apps/4989

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Subject: Re: Good graphing with error bars?
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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:52:34 GMT

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Ted Grusec) writes:
> In article <[e-mail]> <[e-mail]> writes:
>>I've been looking around for a program that can make nice looking graphs (publi
>>cation quality) with error bars (standard error of the mean). Believ it or not,
>> this is not easy to find. I purchased CA-Cricket Graph for Windows a few month

...[tried some spreadsheets]

Some time ago I got a disk from Borland which has Quattro Pro templates to
solve a number of problems.  One of these was to generate error-bars.  I
haven't looked at it for a while but I remember that the procedure was
quite complex but that the template did in fact work.

Don't know if the same template would work in QPW, (and I don't presently
have the disk), but you might check w/ Borland tech support.

If you're data is not too complex, you can, of course, graph 3 series--
means and standard deviations, blank out the lines for the standard
deviation values, change the markers to horizontal lines for these series,
and then annotate in the vertical lines.  It's admittedly a hack, but I've
used it successfully.

John Garland
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