A {boxplot} is used as a descriptive statistic. Both {pgf-plots} and {pstricks} offers this as a graphing tool.

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Can I use pgfplots to make a boxplot

My current plotting tool for my papers is pgfplots for nice consistent plots. Now I would like to add a boxplot. Is this possible with help of pgfplots, or any helper package?
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Simpler boxplots in pgfplots - is this possible?

When I wanted to plot boxplots in pgfplots, I started using the solution proposed by Jake in the question linked to above. However, as I wanted to plot more than one set of boxplots in the same figure ...
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Having difficulty with pstricks box plot, psaxes, pspicture

a TeX noob here. I wish to plot performance test results once every two weeks (or sooner) displaying a 2 week window. I saw a similar question: Can I use pgfplots to make a boxplot and the following ...
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Box plots with symbolic x coords

I'd like to use box plots with pgfplots. As an additional feature, I'd want my x coordinates to be symbolic. Currently, only the last line from the file data/gp.dat is plotted. It works fine, if I use ...
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PGFplots and boxplots: How to tune width and separation of boxes?

I would like to use pgfplots to draw boxplots. This minimal example works fine for me. But I would like to display more data in this form \begin{filecontents}{testdata.dat} 0 1 1.2 0.4 1.5 0.2 1 2 ...
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Boxplot in latex

I am new to Latex. How can I draw a boxplot in latex. My data set is as below index median box_top box_bottom whisker_top whisker_bottom 0 1 1.2 0.4 1.5 0.2 1 2 2.3 1.5 2.7 1 2 0.7 1.4 0.5 1.9 0.1 ...
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How to plot f(x)=sin(x), k(x)=cos(x) and u(x)=x² with TikZ

How can we plot the following three functions f(x) = sin(x) k(x) = cos(x) u(x) = x² for x ∈ [0,1] on a single plot with the help of TikZ?
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Set a colormap to fill a bar plot using pgfplots

I'm trying to change the default color of the bar plot with a a colormap without success. The thing is that I don't like the default color sequence. However, I was wondering if there is a way of ...