Sample Graphs

These are some examples of graphs that I have made over the years for various publications and lectures.  All were made using Microsoft Excel.  They demonstrate some of the capabilities of modern software for producing publication-quality plots.  You should look through these examples to get ideas for how you want to depict your own results.  You can click on these images to see a larger version.

2 distributions
altman-bland
points+error
bubble
chisquare
points+error
gamma
2 lines
histogram
bar + ci
horizontal bar
podplot
sorted histo
xy+error
area

 
 

Some Graphical References:

Tufte ER.  The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.  Connecticut: Graphics Press, 1983.  197 pages Tufte ER.  Envisioning Information.  Connecticut:  Graphics Press,  1990. 126 pages  [These are two beautiful books that cover the breadth of graphical display methods.]

Chambers JM, Cleveland WS, Kleiner B, Tukey PA. Graphical Methods  For Data Analysis.  California: Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, 1983.  395 pages  [Graphical methods with emphasis on newer computer-dependent methods.  Best treatment of multivariate methods.]

Cleveland WS.  Visualizing Data.  1993  360 pages.  Hobart Press, Summit, NJ  Murray Hill, NJ  AT&T Bell Laboratories  [Graphical methods with computer-dependent methods using S-Plus  tools.]