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When you can (and when you absolutely should not) show a standard error in your plots

Patrice Salomé of Plant Editors explains the correct use of standard error. We are very used to seeing plots with error bars around data points. These data points are most often the mean of a number of technical replicates collected during a given experiments; you will likely assume that the error bar represents the standard deviation (SD) or the standard error of the mean (SEM). …

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