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
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:32 AM, <phob...@geosyntec.com> wrote:
>
> # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> From: Ben Axelrod [mailto:baxel...@coroware.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 9:31 AM
> To: matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Matplotlib-users] boxplot bug
>
> I found an inconsistency with how boxplots are rendered between version
> 0.99.1 and the svn head. See attached images. I have never seen a boxplot
> cross back on itself like this before. Is this the expected behavior?
>
> Thanks,
> -Ben
> # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Ben,
>
> Yes it is expected behavior. Confidence intervals around the median can
> easily go beyond the 1st and 3rd quartiles. If you're not comfortable with
> this, throw the data into R. I'm confident you'll get a similar result. I
> believe (not sure) that in the svn version you can specify that the CIs be
> computed from a bootstrapped median. Doing so might tighten the CIs up a
> bit.
>
> -Paul H.
>
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