Hello Readers; All this talk of smoothing and contours makes my head hurt. I use to hooked on density plots, I now use dot plots to show data. Viewing articles with Contour or Density plots is viewing data as the presenter wants the reader to see it. It is easy to "clean up" your data in that fashion. Trying to duplicate the research leads to problems when your instrument aquires in dot plot/density plot fashion. Keep the data as it was aquired and use dot plots. Single color dot plots when combine with light scatter can give revealing info on cell staining patterns. Jim Houston > -----Original Message----- > From: Kenneth A Schafer [SMTP:kschafer@itri-1.lrri.org] > Sent: Thursday, September 25, 1997 9:57 AM > To: Cytometry Mailing List > Subject: Re: Contour plots & smoothing: rights and wrongs > > > Flow-ers, > > Mario Roederer said: > > > Of course, you will agree that dot plots are completely > inappropriate. > > (Everyone: please stop publishing data with single-color dot > plots!) > > You've lost me on this one. Being a relative new-comer to flow > cytometry, I don't see what is wrong with dot plots. Please educate > me. If dot plots are "completely inappropriate", is there ever a > situation when they would be appropriate to use? > > Thanks, > Ken Schafer > kschafer@lucy.tli.org > Kenneth A Schafer > Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute > PO Box 5890 > Albuquerque, NM 87185 > 505-845-1126 > 505-845-1198 (fax) > >
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