Bad graph of the week
This one’s from the New England Journal of Medicine, who tweeted
If this graph conveyed any information, it would be saying the new trial of anti-retroviral treatment found no difference in neonatal HIV infection rates. Fortunately, the tweet is just clickbait, and if you click on the link (not the picture) and wait through a minute and a half of video, you get the real graph
You could also just read the abstract of the paper to get the information more quickly.
(via Julian Wolfson)
Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »