> phob...@geosyntec.com wrote:
> > Hey folks,
> >
> > I recently modified the Axes method boxplot so that the confidence
> intervals around the mean are computed not with a static formula, but by
> bootstrapping the median as many times as the user specifies. Also, I
> commented out the lines that prevent the boxplots from folding around the
> hinges (but that's obviously minor and in the current SVN if I'm not
> mistaken).
> >
> > Is this something that would be worth including in matplotlib? I've
> never contributed to a project like this before and my code is probably
> pretty sloppy by MPL standards. I'm not really sure what's appropriate to
> contribute and what's not.
> >


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Straw [mailto:straw...@astraw.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 2:20 PM
> To: Paul Hobson
> Cc: matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [matplotlib-devel] Boxplots with Bootstrapped Intervals
> ...
> I think the best thing to do is to post the patch so that it can be
> reviewed. Sending the output of "svn diff" as an attachment to this
> email list would be easy from our end. (A github based submission --
> fork the repo and push your commits -- would also work well for me, but
> I'm not sure about the other MPL devs.)

Andrew,

Thanks for the reply. At the risk of embarrassment, I'm going to admit that I'm 
not at all familiar with SVN other than I know that it's version control 
software. Nonetheless I gave it a shot.

I guess I should add that I didn't account for the fact that the user might 
want to have the CIs output with the other boxplot properties. Shouldn't be too 
hard to add in though. Also, I'm using the percentile method -- meaning that 
after I get my "normal" distribution of medians, I simply use mlab's percentile 
function to get the 2.5th and 97.5th percentile of that distribution. The other 
method (bias-corrected and accelerated) was too complex for me to code up 
quickly without using Rpy2, and that just seemed silly.

Thanks again,
-paul

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