III-Graphs & Statistics

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BIOP Recommandations

Do not plot mean of ( mean of ( mean of (mean of a measure) ) ) )
SHOW your work! Show dot plots!

Anscombe's quartet, a.k.a "what's behind the mean"

The 4 datasets have the same :

• Mean : 7.5
• Standart Deviation : 4.12
• Regression line : y = 3 + 0.5x
• correlation : 0.816

Graphs in Statistical Analysis
F. J. Anscombe , The American Statistician, Vol. 27, No. 1. (Feb., 1973), pp. 17-21.

Data representation

Beyond Bar and Line Graphs: Time for a New Data Presentation Paradigm.
Weissgerber , Milic, Winham, Garovic. PLOS, Published: April 2015

Superplots

Samuel J. Lord, Katrina B. Velle, R. Dyche Mullins, Lillian K. Fritz-Laylin; SuperPlots: Communicating reproducibility and variability in cell biology. J Cell Biol 1 June 2020; 219 (6): e202001064. doi: https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202001064

https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202001064

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Different Field of view of a sample (clic on the image if not animated)

Corresponding measurement (clic on the image if not animated)

All measurements plotted together

This is how you result would look like if you plot mean of each fields

It's not only US

and Lord et al, 2020

Using the Student’s t-test with extremely small sample sizes

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