Questions tagged [boxplot]
A {boxplot} is used as a descriptive statistic. Both {pgfplots} and {pstricks} offers this as a graphing tool.
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Fiddling with Box plot using statistics library
For anyone who is experienced with the statistics package please give me some tips on how to achieve the following:
1. shaded in the box with gray!30
2. move the whole boxplot up by 0.25 unit so it is ...
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pgfplots: How to draw boxplot pairs separated in two y axis?
The user Korijn has posted a nice approach on how to create pairs of boxplots which are belonging to each other.
Minimum Working Example (MWE):
\documentclass[border=2mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{...
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Combine fill and pattern in a pgfplot boxplot?
Is it possible to combine a pattern with a background color in Pgfplot boxplot?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.8}
\usepgfplotslibrary{statistics}
\usetikzlibrary{...
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Pgfplots box plot: change outlier style
I am trying to plot several box plots (data read from file), and I want them to look the same. I managed to do that for everything but the outliers, that still use the default style/colormap (see the ...
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Combine boxplot and histogram in one diagram (PGF/TikZ)
For my bachelor thesis I did a questionnaire, now I want to evaluate and visualise it in a diagram, combining multiple values. Most of the answers from this survey are in a scale of 1-5 or 1-6. I want ...
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pgfplots - box plot with colored outliers
I am trying to restyle a pgfplots box plot in a matter suggested by Daniel Carr.
filled boxes instead of outlined
thickened whiskers with no fences
all elements (boxes, whiskers, and outliers) ...
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How to modify a boxplot!? (mean, outliers, values: median, …)
I have some issues with my boxplot and I hope someone can help me to fix them.
Here my MWE:
\documentclass[a4paper]{scrbook}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{textcomp} ...
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How to sketch a simple horizontal box plot
I am trying to plot a box plot in latex.
Below is what I want (only horizontal axis; ticks or axis arrows are options but I do not want axes borders or any vertical axis element).
The code below is ...
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Include average in boxplot
I would like to include an average into my boxplots. The boxplots are made using https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/183856/164280 as an example. I have seen in How to show the mean or average value on a ...
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boxplot prepared from table, accessed using row names instead of numbers
I have csv files1 that I want to plot as boxplots. I found the solution to that part of the problem here (courtesy of Jake), and that constitutes a large part of my MWE.
The difference here is that I ...
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Misplaced boxes after some groups, remove white space
I am not sure why after the 6th group of data, the boxes start to be placed to the right (wrong position).
I would like to remove this white space at the start and end (lines in red).
% borrowed ...
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Custom command for multiple boxplots
I have to include a lot of boxplots in my document and would like to automate this with a custom command. I'd like to be able to write something like this:
\boxplots[
range={1,2,3,4,5},
questions=...
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Create boxplots from file
My question is somewhat related to this thread. I would like
to create box plots from a file. The file (in my case a CSV) looks like this:
Upper,Lower,Min,Max,Median,Name
3,1,0,4,2,First
4,2,1,5,3,...
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Plot line connecting the medians of different boxplots
I have a plot including multiple boxplots, grouped (5 by 5) in different conditions, as shown in the figure
Each group of 5 boxplots is based on data defined in a single file.
I'd like to add a line ...
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How can I put nodes to the outliers in my boxplot?
I finally managed it to get the boxplot I wanted, but now I have no idea how to label my outliers. Does somebody have a solution?
And I also want to change the labeling of the y-axis from .5 steps to ...
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pgfplots / boxplots: use draw color as fill color
I want to fill boxplots according to color that is used to them. For example, for red drawn boxplots, i want to fill it with red. Can you please help me?
The code is copied from another topic.
\...
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some of the boxplots in a group shifted
Some of the box plots are shifted. Can you please help me to solve it?
(code is copied from user Korijn).
\documentclass[a4paper]{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usepgfplotslibrary{statistics}
\...
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how to make vertical box plot to horizontal box plot
I have code that draws vertical box plot. I need to change it into horizontal box plot. Can you please tell me how to do it?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgf}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\...
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Colors for bars in pgfplots box plot [duplicate]
I am looking for some help with pgfplots.
I don't like the default colors for this boxplot and would like to choose some others but not sure how best to do this with this package.
I need the colours ...
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box plot statistic with 2 lines
I am trying to have a boxplot from data , with two lines and frequency in the second line.
example:
I don't know how to do it,
with a "foreach " or special command for boxplot ( pgfplots )
\...
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Boxplot with data from command
I'm trying to produce a boxplot with pgfplots where the data plotted is produced by some other command. Here a MCVE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.13}
\...
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Multiple boxplots
In the following, you find a modified version of the boxplot from here (4 boxplots per data set instead of 2):
\documentclass[a4paper]{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usepgfplotslibrary{...
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Plotting and handling horizontal space of multiple boxplots from file
I want to plot several boxplots together but I have a couple of problems.
Each 5 boxplots belong to the same condition, that's why they have the same style (crappy, at the moment, but I'm gonna work ...
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Boxplot with automatic quartiles - how to fit more than 4 plots?
I ran into the following problem: I want to use /pgfplots/boxplot to calculate and display the quartiles (and whiskers) using raw data. So instead of using boxplot prepare I would like to have ...
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Draw a boxplot from a specific line of my data set
I am new to PGFPlots and boxplot.
My data set is as below:
\begin{filecontents}{trial.dat}
1 12 3 2 25 6 21 8 6
11 2 23 14 15 16 17 82 92
11 22 39 43 51 61 79 80 9
1 22 3 48 35 66 17 28 99
\end{...
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Shift single x tick label to the right? [closed]
Is it possible to shift a single x tick label to the right?
I created a boxplot and set the x ticks at the important positions (lower whisker, median aso.) Due to the fact that some points lie close ...
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PGFPlots: BoxPlot of a statistic table with absolute frequency
Here is my problem. I have data in a statistic table with value / absolute frequency like this:
\pgfplotstableread{
1 1
2 2
3 6
4 10
5 6
6 ...
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Error “i do not know the key '/pgfplots/boxplot lower whisker'” [closed]
I'm following this to learn a bit about pgfplots. I am trying to draw a boxplot following the example shown on page 469, but I get the I do not know the key '/pgfplots/boxplot lower whisker' error. ...
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Can I make an ellipse on a box-plot?
I saw a nice way to make a box plot here. But I would like to mark where a specific student is. So can I draw a small ellipse on the box plot. E.g. at 82%?
I am thinking an ellipse is better, because ...
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Box Plots in tikzpicture - Two Plots per y tick
I need a Box plot with two boxes on each ytick. Any ideas?
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis} [
title=Scenario 1,
height=6.0cm, width=8.0cm,
xmin=6, xmax=20, xtick={6,8,...,20}...
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Drawing multiple box plots from a file
I've got data in the following format
n lw lq m uq uw
50 200 209 237 327 569
100 376 379 386 390 391
150 ...
...
Where lw = lower whisker, lq = lower quartile, etc.
I want to plot each box against ...
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pgfplots boxplot first column as draw position
I have data like this in a file.
1 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.8 ...
5 0.3 0.5 0.6 0.9 ...
10 0.2 0.3 0.7 0.10 ..
...
How do I tell boxplot to use the first column as draw position and compute the box for the ...
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How to fill the parameters of `boxplot prepared` with data from table using PGFPlots?
I want to draw a boxplot using boxplot prepared@ Page 469 of pgfplots-manual; v1.13, with the values of lower whisker, lower quartile, median, higher quartile, and higher whisker from a data file.
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Is it possible to user-define the percentages for lower/upper whisper in boxplot of PGFPlots?
According to Section 5.12.1 of the manual of PGFPlots; Revision 1.13 (2016/01/06), boxplot visualizes (see Page 472):
Median is the 0.5–quantile of the input data.
Lower quartile is the 0.25–...
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PGF boxplot with annotations
I read the section about boxplots in the pgfplots manual but I cant get it to work.
I need to display the median inside the boxplot above or below the line of the median.
How can I add the values to ...
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Unmodified boxplot with pgfplots
When using pgfplots to create a boxplot, it'll draw a modified box plot by default, where the whiskers are the largest/smallest non-outlier values and the outliers are represented by dots. Is there a ...
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Using named nodes as pgfplots coordinates
Is it possible to use named nodes as coordinates in an \addplot command?
I am trying to plot a line through the averages of a number of boxplots calculated by pgfplots (rather than using boxplot ...
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Showing legend for boxplot in pgfplots
I am trying to display a legend for a boxplot created in pgfplots.
However the size of the legend is almost as large as the plot and covers up all of my plot, how do I fix this?
\documentclass{...
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Box plots from dataset with metadata in one column and data in another
How can I instruct pgfplots to generate a boxplot from a dataset with an identifier in one column (Label in the example below) and the data in another column (Value in the example below)? I would like ...
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Pgfplots Boxplots with a thick line at the mean value [duplicate]
pgfplot produces nice looking plots, that have consistent look and feel. But sometimes you have a good reason to change that look, and I found it tricky to change style of an specific line, circle, ...
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How do I change the color of average in boxplot n pgfplots?
I have a simple graph using boxplot and I'm trying to customize the look. I'm part way there, but am having trouble with the average.
where I have changed the color of the box and the median, but the ...
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Groups of boxplots using symbolic coordinates
I would like to create a plot similarly as to the
bar plot example, but with boxplots instead of bars.
So far what I have this MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{...
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How to change the mark in a pgfplots boxplot
I have my own custom style for boxplots which I like very much. I like it so much I would like to use it everywhere. I used it with the old boxplots, and it did everything I wanted.
However, the ...
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How to fix pgf boxplot error with only zero value in samples?
Following this previous question I am still figuring out how to properly handle different "borderline" cases with the boxplot feature provided by pgfplots. The following MWE:
\documentclass{...
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How to group box plots in pgf / tikz? [closed]
Grouping bar charts is easily done using pgf / tikz, e.g.,
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[
width = 0.85*\textwidth,
height = 4cm,
major x tick style = transparent,
xbar=2*\...
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pgfplots : Box Plots and two y axis
I'm trying to add some data points on another y axis along with box plots.
My experience in TeX is quite limited and I'm not sure why my axis appears in the middle of my x axis instead of at the end ...
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PGFPLOTS: How To Put \addplot boxplot prepared Inside Macro Definition
I have a need to wrap the `\addplot [boxplot prepared]' inside a macro to greatly save typing. It seems simple enough, but the devil is in the details with macro expansion issues. Is this doable given ...
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PGFPLOTS defintion inside macro inside table or insert boxplots inside table
I am trying to take a plot of a series of boxplots and include/insert these into a table. The code came from a posting of using a data table to define a series of boxplots. The code for the table ...
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pgfplots generating incorrect boxplots
While trying to reproduce some boxplots using pgfplots (and analyzing samples automatically), I noticed that in some cases I was getting different plots from Matlab. I have left all the settings in ...
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PGFPLOTS boxplot data from inline file
I have The following code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\usepackage{pgfplots, pgfplotstable}
\usepgfplotslibrary{statistics}
\begin{document}
\pgfplotsset{width=7cm,compat=1....
