Displaying Uncertainty
Options:
- Error bars showing confidence limits
- Confidence bands drawn using two lines
- Shaded confidence bands
- Bayesian credible intervals
- Bayesian posterior densities
Confidence Limits
Source: Manning AK, LaValley M, Liu CT, et al. Meta-Analysis of Gene-Environment Interaction:
Joint Estimation of SNP and SNP x Environment Regression Coefficients. Genet Epidemiol 2011, 35(1):11-8.
Shaded Confidence Bands
Source: Frank E. Harrell Jr. on graphics: http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/twiki/pub/Main/StatGraphCourse/graphscourse.pdf
Source: Tweedie RL and Mengersen KL. (1992) Br. J. Cancer 66: 700-705
Forest Plot
This is a Forest plot summarizing 26 studies of cigarette smoke exposure on risk of lung cancer. The sizes of the black boxes indicating the estimated odds ratio are proportional to the sample size in each study.
Data from Tweedie RL and Mengersen KL. (1992) Br. J. Cancer 66: 700-705