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Chris -- 2018-04-11
If “aerobars” for bicycles can become arrow bars in the imagination, then arrows might be a natural confusion for error bars, those whiskers around a bar graph that point out its probable range of values. Of course they can.
Thread: Arrow bars on graph, first person account
You know the arrow bars showing standard error on graph paper (for coursework), what exactly do you have to say about them in the anaylsis? I mean I know that a shorter arrow bar means that the result is more reliable compared to a longer arrow bar. But is there anything else you have to mention?
Later: Rofl. Just realised I said it wrong. :o Yeh I meant error bars. Gosh. My teacher has an accent so all that time I thought she was saying ‘arrow’ rather than ‘error’ :sheepish grin:
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The above arrow bars are centred on the line. We could instead centre the arrow bars on the data and will come to the same conclusion.
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how to make an arrow bar on ms excel ?
Hi, do you guys here know how to make an arrow bar on ms excel? Please fill me in. Thanks in advance !
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I tried looking for this after the arrow dynamic thread as well, but aside from that first one where the writer catches his error, I wasn’t sure that they didn’t actually mean “arrow bars” as in bars with arrows on them. I often found plots that actually had arrows on the bars.
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You’re right, fp, there are a lot more true “arrow bars” out there than I would have thought. The second hit does provides the graph, which has error bars and not arrowed bars, but the figure heading also starts out describing them as error bars and then switches to arrows at the end. WTFT? Or maybe incomplete correction? The eggcorn of “arrow bars” for those vaguely arrow-shaped handlebars of competition bicycles is by far the more common substitution.
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