Raindrop plots: A new way to display collections of likelihoods and distributions

American Statistician

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 268-274

  Barrowman, Nicholas J ^a   Myers, Ransom A ^b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Likelihood interval; Log odds ratio; Meta analysis; Nonlinear model; Nonnormality; Variable height plot

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242458474     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/0003130032369     Document Type: Article

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