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Fig. 1: The evolution of two-group data graphics.

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Ho, J., Tumkaya, T., Aryal, S. et al. Moving beyond P values: data analysis with estimation graphics. Nat Methods 16, 565–566 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-019-0470-3

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