Designing bar graphs: Orientation matters

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 953-962

  Fischer, Martin H ^a   Dewulf, Nele ^a,b   Hill, Robin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 28644431724     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1105     Document Type: Article

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