Vitalnet Health Statistics - Line Charts

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Vitalnet line charts are automatically displayed. Vitalnet line charts are attractive and easy to interpret. If the chart will be invalid (for example, categorical data), or look bad (for example, too many lines), it is not made.

Advantages of Vitalnet line charts include:

• Publication-ready - Provide professional, clean output.
• Fully documented - Avoid risk of misinterpretation.
• Easily customized - Make exactly what you need.
• Standards-compliant - Conform to data presentation standards:
UNL · SAP

Links to other resources:

• VitalWeb interfaces you can use to make line charts.
• PowerPoint presentation on Vitalnet output.

Vitalnet allows you to customize a line chart in many different ways. The result is that each line chart can be displayed over 3,000 different ways. You can choose the combination that works best for you.

Vitalnet line chart parameters, illustrated using California ICD-9 death data:

A. Basic Appearance

1. Data Point Symbols - Whether to use data point symbols.
• Include point symbols
• Omit point symbols
2. Symbol Radius - How big to make data point symbols.
• Scaled symbols
• 1 mm symbols
• 2 mm symbols
• 3 mm symbols
• Other values available in program...
3. Line Colors - Colors used for data lines.
• Color
• Black and white
4. Grid Lines - Whether to use grid lines.
• Include grid
• Omit grid

B. Chart Size

1. Font Size (points) - How big the chart text is.
• 10 pt text
• 12 pt text
• 14 pt text
• Other values available in program...
2. Line Chart Height (cm) - How tall the chart is.
• 4 cm high chart
• 6 cm high chart
• 10 cm high chart
• Other values available in program...

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