• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: When Should Zero be Included on a Scale Showing Magnitude?
  • Contributor: Kozak, Marcin
  • Published: Wiley, 2011
  • Published in: Teaching Statistics, 33 (2011) 2, Seite 53-58
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9639.2010.00456.x
  • ISSN: 0141-982X; 1467-9639
  • Keywords: Education ; Statistics and Probability
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  • Description: <jats:title>Summary</jats:title><jats:p>This article addresses an important problem of graphing quantitative data: should one include zero on the scale showing magnitude? Based on a real time series example, the problem is discussed and some recommendations are proposed.</jats:p>