Guidelines for Presenting Tables and Figures in Scientific Manuscripts
David L. Schriger
UCLA Emergency Medicine Center, Los Angeles, CA USA
Search for more papers by this authorDavid L. Schriger
UCLA Emergency Medicine Center, Los Angeles, CA USA
Search for more papers by this authorDavid Moher
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Search for more papers by this authorDouglas G. Altman
Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford and EQUATOR Network, Oxford, UK
Search for more papers by this authorKenneth F. Schulz
FHI360, Durham, and UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Search for more papers by this authorIveta Simera
Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford and EQUATOR Network Oxford, UK
Search for more papers by this authorSummary
Most reporting guidelines say far more about the reporting of methods than about the reporting of results. This chapter summarizes the principles to be considered when determining what data to present and how best to present it and offers practical tips regarding graphs commonly used in specific research designs. It explains general principles for tables, figures and or tables and figures. In addition the chapter provides suggestions for specific situations, includes Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves, forest plots, survival curves, box plots, bar graphs, paired data and stratified data. Finally it explains participant baseline characteristics.
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