Got it - thanks.
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Paul Hobson <pmhob...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Clifford Lyon <clifford.l...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I wish to make a boxplot with data in this format:
>>
>> Value, Frequency
>> 0, 128329
>> 1, 20390
>> 2, 230
>> 3, 32
>> 4, 3
>>
>> etc. Rather than expand this into a flat array, is there some way to
>> pass in weights for values? Some of the frequencies I'm working with are
>> very large, and so the resulting arrays would be huge. AFAIK, all the
>> summary statistics I need for the plot can be computed from data in this
>> form.
>>
>>
> Boxplot, as it currently stands, wants the raw data. Some recently added
> features allow you to manually specify the median and it's confidence
> intervals, but nothing else.
>
> I've been meaning to submit a PR for boxplot where it's split into the
> public method and private drawing function that just takes a dictionary of
> the values (R does this, IIRC). That wouldn't directly help you in this
> situation, but you'd be one step closer.
> -paul
>
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