| Article ID: | iaor201112194 |
| Volume: | 33 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 53 |
| End Page Number: | 58 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2011 |
| Journal: | Teaching Statistics |
| Authors: | Kozak Marcin |
| Keywords: | time series: forecasting methods |
This article addresses an important problem of graphing quantitative data: should one include zero on the scale showing magnitude? Based on a real time series example, the problem is discussed and some recommendations are proposed.