Re: [Plplot-general] box-and-whisker plots supported?

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On 2008-10-07 10:09+0200 Robert Pollak wrote:

> Hello,
> does PLplot support box-and-whisker plots? If yes, is there some
> example screenshot on the web? There is none at
> http://plplot.sourceforge.net/examples.php .

I assume you are referring to the kind of plot that is discussed in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_plot. We currently have no higher-level API
to support that.  Of course, you could make your own function to do
that using lower-level PLplot commands.

If you donated such a function to PLplot with no external dependencies and
with a corresponding example to show off that functionality, I believe there
is a pretty good chance we would accept it (which means a fair amount of
work on our part propagating the API and example to our different languages)
since it appears from the above article to be a well-accepted plot style for
quickly describing statistical distributions without the well-known
drawbacks of histograms.

Alan
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