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Confidence intervals aren't even that informative. Like using boxplots when you could inform the viewer so much more with sina plots [1]. Why not show me the wh
by medstrom 6y ago
Confidence intervals aren't even that informative. Like using boxplots when you could inform the viewer so much more with sina plots [1]. Why not show me the whole posterior probability distribution (perhaps helpfully marking the 95% highest density region [2])? Or if you don't have a distribution, show me the 95%, 97.5% and 99.5% intervals.
[1] https://clauswilke.com/dataviz/boxplots-violins.html https://clauswilke.com/dataviz/boxplots-violins.html
[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/mathematics/highest-density-interval https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/mathematics/highest-den...
- mattkrause 6y agoSure, there are better ways to actually do it; I was just riffing off the bit in the article. It is super weird that an field devoted to doing inference somehow just...doesn't when it comes to evaluating their/our own work.