Extracting sunbeams from cucumbers

Abstract

In this article we survey the display formats used in the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics during the period 2005-2010 and discover that the most dominant format was the table. We then examine the actual tables used and find that most could have been made more comprehensible had they utilized one or more of three simple rules for table construction. We illustrate these rules on tables drawn from the Journal and elsewhere. © 2011 American Statistical Association.