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■■❚❙❘Chapter 36Use of FiguresZoe Fox, Anil K Taneja, James F Lymp,Duolao Wang, and Ameet BakhaiGraphical representation of clinical data is used to provide visualinformation on the distributions or relationships of outcomevariables, as well as illustrating the treatment effects observedin a study. Figures can illustrate the efficacy or safety of differenttreatments and provide a graphical comparison of thosetreatments among specific groups of patients. Publicationsbenefit from graphical representations if they are easilyinterpretable and correctly applied. In this chapter, we discussthe various types of graphical representations that would beappropriate for different kinds of data. The advantages anddisadvantages of specific graphical representations witha practical view are also illustrated.407

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