For med students working on your own first-author paper as part of a research project, what is expected of you from your faculty mentor? I want to get a reference point for my own project, which I am largely completing by myself (writing it, creating the figures, interpreting results) with pointers from my mentor/co-authors ad hoc.
Related to this: how common are excel charts in peer-reviewed publications? I always assumed most figures you see in scholarly publications are created with specialized software (e.g. SAS, STATA, R), but after consulting with our statistician I was told Excel would work fine.
Related to this: how common are excel charts in peer-reviewed publications? I always assumed most figures you see in scholarly publications are created with specialized software (e.g. SAS, STATA, R), but after consulting with our statistician I was told Excel would work fine.