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--- On Wed, 7/23/08, Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [R] adding the mean and standard deviation to boxplots > To: r-help@r-project.org > Received: Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 2:24 AM > Dear users > > This is a message I was directing to Harold Baize but > because I pressed the > wrong button the message got lost grrrr!!! > > So I’m doing it all over again: > > Lets suppose I have three batches of data: > > a <- rnorm(50,2500,300) > b <- rnorm(50,3500,250) > c <- rnorm(50,4000,200) > > # Now I want to plot them as boxplots and violin plots > require(vioplot) > vioplot (a,b,c, horizontal=T, col=“white”) > boxplot (a,b,c, horizontal=T, col=“white”) > > As we know boxplot show the least-greates values, > lower-upper quartiles, the > mean, and outliers (when present). > > However, for some data is not important the MEDIAN but the > MEAN. Also, it is > more relevant to show ERROR BARS instead of quartiles. > > So, how could I see (for the batches of data I introduced > above)… > > 1. a boxplot showing the MEAN and the SD instead of the > lower/upper > quartile? > 2. a boxplot showing the MEAN and the STANDARD ERROR OF THE > MEAN instead of > the lower/upper quartile? > 3. a boxplot showing the MEAN and the 95% CI instead of the > lower/upper > quartile? > > (I think in all these cases is preferable to have visual > access, or to have > the line that shows, the LEAST and the GREATEST VALUES.) > > In other words, that the ERROR BARS (95% CI, SD, SE) > proposed here take the > place of the boxes usually used to represent the > lower/upper quartile. > > Now, the big question, is all this jazz possible to be > implemented in violin > plots as well? > > How could that be done? > > Cheers, > > Fernando > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/adding-the-mean-and-standard-deviation-to-boxplots-tp15271398p18604571.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, > reproducible code. __________________________________________________________________ Instant Messaging, free SMS, sharing photos and more... Try the new Yahoo! Canada Messenger at http://ca.beta.messenger.yahoo.com/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
