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Meta-analysis effect-size plot with confidence intervals.
A point per study (effect size) flanked by a horizontal line (confidence interval). A vertical line marks the null. Standard in evidence-based medicine and economics.
When to use
Comparing effect sizes across studies / experiments / segments with explicit uncertainty.
When NOT to use
You have no uncertainty information (use dot-plot).
Rhetorical roles
- compare
- distribute
Variants & related
Required primitives
- has_error_bars
- has_axis_titles
Optional primitives
- has_data_labels
- has_source_note
Common anti-patterns
- missing-label
- unsourced-data
Disambiguation rules
- Dots with horizontal lines through them (CI), often with a vertical line marking the null effect.
- If no horizontal CI lines, it is dot-plot.