Probably this change would upset John Tukey if he were alive.
I still wonder how you ignore the data since boxplot is there to represent
the data :)
Tell me how to undiff the changes then I will test your idea.
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Ariel Rokem <aro...@berkeley.edu> wrote:
> No - not the 'widths' kwarg. I want something that *looks* like the
> boxplot, but for which I will have control of setting the ranges delimited
> by the box and delimited by the whiskers (in the vertical dimension, not the
> horizontal dimension). I resorted to hacking something from the existing
> code (see attached diff). This simply allows you to over-ride the
> computation of box_y, med_y and the wisk_lo and wisk_hi, which are otherwise
> derived from the data. In other words, it allows you to ignore the data :-)
>
> Cheers - Ariel
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Gökhan Sever <gokhanse...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Ariel Rokem <aro...@berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi -
>>>
>>> yes - but I want something that looks like the generic boxplot, but in
>>> which I can control where the edges of the boxes are placed what the sizes
>>> of the whiskers are. A combination of errorbar and bar, with this
>>> appearance, if you will.
>>>
>>> Cheers - Ariel
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I guess then yours will be a non-standard box-plot because in a regular
>> boxplot median is at 50th percentile, and the edges are at 25 and 75th
>> respectively. There is no consensus for whiskers some uses 5 and 95 some 10
>> - 90 or you could come up with your own pair. Don't get surprised if you see
>> different results for different percentiles. See at
>> http://old.nabble.com/incorrect-boxplot--td25440025.html
>>
>> Probably you don't seek something like boxplot's widths kw arg if I
>> understand you right?
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Gökhan Sever <gokhanse...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Ariel Rokem <aro...@berkeley.edu>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi - more generally, is there any way to control the location of the
>>>>> median line, the vertical size of the box and the vertical location of the
>>>>> whiskers?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks - Ariel
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Aren't those generically calculated from the data?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Gökhan
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ariel Rokem
>>> Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute
>>> University of California, Berkeley
>>> http://argentum.ucbso.berkeley.edu/ariel
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Gökhan
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Ariel Rokem
> Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute
> University of California, Berkeley
> http://argentum.ucbso.berkeley.edu/ariel
>
--
Gökhan
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