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boxplot ​

Makie.boxplot Function
julia
boxplot(x, y; kwargs...)

Draw a Tukey style boxplot. The boxplot has 3 components:

  • a crossbar spanning the interquartile (IQR) range with a midline marking the median

  • an errorbar whose whiskers span range * iqr

  • points marking outliers, that is, data outside the whiskers

Arguments

  • x: positions of the categories

  • y: variables within the boxes

Plot type

The plot type alias for the boxplot function is BoxPlot.

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Examples ​

julia
using CairoMakie
categories = rand(1:3, 1000)
values = randn(1000)

boxplot(categories, values)
julia
using CairoMakie
categories = rand(1:3, 1000)
values = randn(1000)
dodge = rand(1:2, 1000)

boxplot(categories, values, dodge = dodge, show_notch = true, color = dodge)

Colors are customizable. The color attribute refers to the color of the boxes, whereas outliercolor refers to the color of the outliers. If not scalars (e.g. :red), these attributes must have the length of the data. If outliercolor is not provided, outliers will have the same color as their box, as shown above.

Note

For all indices corresponding to points within the same box, color (but not outliercolor) must have the same value.

julia
using CairoMakie
categories = rand(1:3, 1000)
values = randn(1000)
dodge = rand(1:2, 1000)

boxplot(categories, values, dodge = dodge, show_notch = true, color = map(d->d==1 ? :blue : :red, dodge) , outliercolor = rand([:red, :green, :blue, :black, :yellow], 1000))

Using statistical weights ​

julia
using CairoMakie
using Distributions

N = 100_000
x = rand(1:3, N)
y = rand(Uniform(-1, 5), N)

w = pdf.(Normal(), x .- y)

fig = Figure()

boxplot(fig[1,1], x, y)
boxplot(fig[1,2], x, y, weights = w)

fig

Horizontal axis ​

julia
using CairoMakie
fig = Figure()

categories = rand(1:3, 1000)
values = randn(1000)

ax_vert = Axis(fig[1,1];
    xlabel = "categories",
    ylabel = "values",
    xticks = (1:3, ["one", "two", "three"])
)
ax_horiz = Axis(fig[1,2];
    xlabel="values", # note that x/y still correspond to horizontal/vertical axes respectively
    ylabel="categories",
    yticks=(1:3, ["one", "two", "three"])
)

# Note: same order of category/value, despite different axes
boxplot!(ax_vert, categories, values) # `orientation=:vertical` is default
boxplot!(ax_horiz, categories, values; orientation=:horizontal)

fig

Attributes ​

color ​

Defaults to @inherit patchcolor

No docs available.

colormap ​

Defaults to @inherit colormap

No docs available.

colorrange ​

Defaults to automatic

No docs available.

colorscale ​

Defaults to identity

No docs available.

cycle ​

Defaults to [:color => :patchcolor]

No docs available.

dodge ​

Defaults to automatic

Vector of Integer (length of data) of grouping variable to create multiple side-by-side boxes at the same x position.

dodge_gap ​

Defaults to 0.03

Spacing between dodged boxes.

gap ​

Defaults to 0.2

Shrinking factor, width -> width * (1 - gap).

inspectable ​

Defaults to @inherit inspectable

No docs available.

marker ​

Defaults to @inherit marker

No docs available.

markersize ​

Defaults to @inherit markersize

No docs available.

mediancolor ​

Defaults to @inherit linecolor

No docs available.

medianlinewidth ​

Defaults to @inherit linewidth

No docs available.

n_dodge ​

Defaults to automatic

No docs available.

notchwidth ​

Defaults to 0.5

Multiplier of width for narrowest width of notch.

orientation ​

Defaults to :vertical

Orientation of box (:vertical or :horizontal).

outliercolor ​

Defaults to automatic

No docs available.

outlierstrokecolor ​

Defaults to @inherit markerstrokecolor

No docs available.

outlierstrokewidth ​

Defaults to @inherit markerstrokewidth

No docs available.

range ​

Defaults to 1.5

Multiple of IQR controlling whisker length.

show_median ​

Defaults to true

Show median as midline.

show_notch ​

Defaults to false

Draw the notch.

show_outliers ​

Defaults to true

Show outliers as points.

strokecolor ​

Defaults to @inherit patchstrokecolor

No docs available.

strokewidth ​

Defaults to @inherit patchstrokewidth

No docs available.

weights ​

Defaults to automatic

Vector of statistical weights (length of data). By default, each observation has weight 1.

whiskercolor ​

Defaults to @inherit linecolor

No docs available.

whiskerlinewidth ​

Defaults to @inherit linewidth

No docs available.

whiskerwidth ​

Defaults to 0.0

Multiplier of width for width of T's on whiskers, or :match to match width.

width ​

Defaults to automatic

Width of the box before shrinking.