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When Should Zero be Included on a Scale Showing Magnitude?
Author(s) -
Kozak Marcin
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9639.2010.00456.x
Subject(s) - magnitude (astronomy) , zero (linguistics) , scale (ratio) , series (stratigraphy) , statistics , computer science , mathematics , geography , physics , geology , cartography , paleontology , philosophy , linguistics , astronomy
Summary 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.