statistics
error bar
Segment showing the spread or uncertainty of an estimate.
Classification
- statistics
Attestation
- English definition: The elements of graphing data
Sources (12)
31 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 4 books
Show the 12 sources
- Atlas of knowledge: anyone can map
- Better data visualizations: a guide for scholars, researchers, and wonks
- Building Science Graphics: An Illustrated Guide to Communicating Science through Diagra...
- Computational statistics in data science
- Effective data visualization: the right chart for the right data
- Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference
- LibreTexts Statistics, textbook chapters on charts
- The elements of graphing data
- The grammar of graphics
- The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication
- Wikipedia in English↗
- Wilke, Fundamentals of Data Visualization, O'Reilly, 2019
Cite this entry
Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/error-bar.html
ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. error bar. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/error-bar.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-error-bar,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {error bar},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/error-bar.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-11-10. Images last changed on 2026-10-13. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.