We estimated carbon allocation to belowground processes in unfertilized and fertilized red pine (Pinus resinosa Ait.) plantations in northern Wisconsin to determine how soil fertility affects belowground allocation patterns. We used soil CO(2) efflux and litterfall measurements to estimate total belowground carbon allocation (root production and root respiration) by the carbon balance method, e...

BACKGROUND Forest plots are graphical displays of findings of systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Little is known about the style and content of these plots and whether published plots maximize the graphic's potential for information exchange. METHODS We examine the number, style and content of forest plots presented in a previously studied cross-sectional sample of 300 systematic reviews. ...

This papers describes a perl language program to create time-to-target solution value plots for measured CPU times that are assumed to fit a shifted exponential distribution. This is often the case in local search based heuristics for combinatorial optimization, such as simulated annealing, genetic algorithms, iterated local search, tabu search, WalkSAT, and GRASP. Such plots are very useful in...

Many visual depictions of probability distributions, such as error bars, are difficult for users to accurately interpret. We present and study an alternative representation, Hypothetical Outcome Plots (HOPs), that animates a finite set of individual draws. In contrast to the statistical background required to interpret many static representations of distributions, HOPs require relatively little...

BACKGROUND It is often desirable to observe how a disease progresses over time in individual patients, rather than graphing group averages; and since multiple outcomes are typically recorded on each patient, it would be advantageous to visualise disease progression on multiple variables simultaneously. METHODS A variety of vector plots and a path plot have been developed for this purpose, and...

t1 Fig. 2. Example scatter plots for the subregion measurements. The upper plots are T1/T2 plots, whereas the lower plots contain T1/Fat plots. The plots in the left column are from a Hepatitis C patient with 6 HCC nodules. The plots on the right are for a transplant recipient without Hepatitis C. Each mark represents the median value in a 16x16x2 region. ROIs containing HCC nodules are shown i...