Multiple box plots

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Hi everyone,

Please could anyone help me on how to modify the function that creates a single box plot into multiple box plots? I want to plot the diurnal cycle of my data.

Thanks in advance, I would really appreciate any help you could provide!
Marta.
The box plot package works in this way without any modification. You need one 1D wave per box and whisker. Plot all the 1D waves in a new window that you want to have in your box plot. Make sure the order is correct (Reorder Traces...) and then make box plot based on wildcard selection of waves in the plot (Top Graph), you probably want replicates as columns. This will give a plot with multiple boxes. Do you mean instead that you would like several different plots with multiple boxes? To do this, you just need to give the Destination Base Name a unique name so that it doesn't get overwritten.

March 30, 2016 at 05:34 am - Permalink

Usually this question means "How do I add another data set to a box plot so that the boxes are side-by-side?"

That's really hard, and modifying the code that makes a box plot to do this is really hard. I know- I wrote the original, and I have a half-finished project to add the necessary modifications.

You can follow a lengthy and tricky process to work around the limitation; it is described here: http://www.igorexchange.com/node/3682#comment-6316

John Weeks
WaveMetrics, Inc.
support@wavemetrics.com

March 30, 2016 at 11:21 am - Permalink

Here is a little interface that i built to make simple box plots that also shows the data points.

I assume the data for each group is in a single wave. Also the label buttons allows me to make the graph labels for each group different the wave name.

Andy
Box It_0.pxp (87.67 KB) Box It_0.pxp (87.67 KB) Box It_0.pxp (87.67 KB)

March 31, 2016 at 06:30 pm - Permalink