RE: st: Forest Plot

[Keith Dear <keith.dear@anu.edu.au>]

Also -findit metagraph-

Forest is of course right as Roger says, but it would have been 
Baron, not Professor, Forrest: Sir John Forrest (1847-1918) was the 
first premier of Western Australia and the first Australian raised to 
the British Peerage (though not for services to statistics, alas).

Keith Dear
8, Ord Street
Forrest, ACT
Australia


At 10:47 PM 19/03/2008, you wrote:

> I think
>
> findit forest plot
>
> is the correct spelling. A forest plot is so called because the
> bottom-line summary confidence interval is like a forest, and the
> individual study confidence intervals are like the individual trees. It
> is not named after a "Professor Forrest".
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