Example Finished Plot [Goldvasser 2012]

[Goldvasser 2012]  Dov Goldvasser, Marilyn E. Noz, G.Q. Maguire, Henrik Olivecrona, Charles R. Bragdon, and Henrik Malchau, ‘A New Technique for Measuring Wear in Total Hip Arthroplasty Using Computed Tomography’, The Journal of Arthroplasty, vol. 27, no. 9, pp. 1636–1640.e1, Oct. 2012. DOI: 10.1016/j.arth.2012.03.053

Transcript

And now the advantage is this beautiful looking plot, which was used in a paper by Dov Goldvasser et al. in 2012.  The labels up here, our main label here out Y label for the mean plus two standard deviations, are lying down here for the mean minus two standard deviations. The subtitle we wanted in, in this case, it was fourteen different scans that were done, numbered 1 to 15, here was the diameter, in this case, that was a hip prosthesis that was being measured; specifically, the cup of the hip prosthesis.  And these are the individual labels on it corresponding to different observers and different trials.  And we can see that the data that falls well within plus or minus two standard deviations. And we can see some trends for particular users.  And if one looks at the table for what are the colors of what are the particular studies - you can get lots and lots of data out of this, So we can see a rather complex plot can be generated rather simply using the advanced plotting functions of R.