Plotting Error Bars In Gnuplot
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by the various errorbar styles. In the default situation, gnuplot expects to see three, four, or six numbers on each line gnuplot error bars style of the data file -- either (x, y, ydelta), (x, y, gnuplot error bars histogram ylow, yhigh), (x, y, xdelta), (x, y, xlow, xhigh), (x, y, xdelta, ydelta), or (x, y, xlow, gnuplot error bars standard deviation xhigh, ylow, yhigh). The x coordinate must be specified. The order of the numbers must be exactly as given above, though the using qualifier can manipulate the order and
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provide values for missing columns. For example, plot 'file' with errorbars plot 'file' using 1:2:(sqrt($1)) with xerrorbars plot 'file' using 1:2:($1-$3):($1+$3):4:5 with xyerrorbars The last example is for a file containing an unsupported combination of relative x and absolute y errors. The using entry generates absolute x min and max from the relative error. The y error bar gnuplot error bars color is a vertical line plotted from (x, ylow) to (x, yhigh). If ydelta is specified instead of ylow and yhigh, ylow = y - ydelta and yhigh = y + ydelta are derived. If there are only two numbers on the record, yhigh and ylow are both set to y. The x error bar is a horizontal line computed in the same fashion. To get lines plotted between the data points, plot the data file twice, once with errorbars and once with lines (but remember to use the notitle option on one to avoid two entries in the key). Alternately, use the errorlines command (see errorlines (p.)). The error bars have crossbars at each end unless set bars is used (see set bars (p.) for details). If autoscaling is on, the ranges will be adjusted to include the error bars. See also http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo/mgr.htmlerrorbar demos. See plot using (p.), plot with (p.), and set style (p.) for more information. Next: Errorlines Up: Plot Previous: Zticlabels Contents Index Ethan Merritt 2007-03-03
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x Dismiss Join the Stack Overflow Community Stack Overflow is a community of 6.2 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/docs_4.2/node140.html gnuplot with errorbars plotting up vote 9 down vote favorite 4 The data in my "file.txt" file are as in the following (sample row shown) 31 1772911000 6789494.2537881 Note that the second column is the mean and the third is the standard deviation of my input sample. So, for the error bar, I would need the bar at the x axis value 31, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10684182/gnuplot-with-errorbars-plotting with the error bar start at (second column value)-(third column value), and end at (second column value)+(third column value). I tried the following: plot "file.txt" using ($1-$2):1:($2+$1) with errorbars but the result is inappropriate. Any help? plot gnuplot share|improve this question asked May 21 '12 at 11:16 user506901 3343613 add a comment| 2 Answers 2 active oldest votes up vote 16 down vote accepted You need x:y:err, so try plot "file.txt" using 1:2:3 with yerrorbars You may instead want candlesticks. These are generally a box with error bars extending out of the top and bottom, but setting the mins and maxes the same should give you boxes of the required size: plot "file.txt" using 1:($2-$3):($2-$3):($2+$3):($2+$3) with candlesticks share|improve this answer edited May 21 '12 at 14:13 answered May 21 '12 at 11:38 Phil H 12.6k54083 Thanks. The first worked, but the second produced gnuplot> set style boxplot candlesticks ^ expecting 'data', 'function', 'line', 'fill' or 'arrow' gnuplot> –user506901 May 21 '12 at 11:47 2 @user506901 -- It looks (to me from the gnuplot docs) that you would just need plot "file.txt" using ... with ca
in those tutorials using gnuplot, a command-line-driven plotting program commonly available on Unix machines (though available for other platforms as well). You may find it helpful to look https://www.cs.hmc.edu/~vrable/gnuplot/using-gnuplot.html at the other tutorials as well; this one is intended to follow them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiaH5K-6xUI quite closely. The instructions and samples given correspond to version 3.7 running under Linux, but the results should be similar everywhere. If you are using an older version, however, you might find a few of the more advanced features missing. Introduction gnuplot seems almost the antithesis of Kaleidagraph: the the Kaleidagraph tutorial error bars calls Kaleidagraph "an easy-to-use if somewhat limited graphics program". gnuplot is a not-quite-as-easy-to use, though extremely powerful, command-line plotting program. Running gnuplot is easy: from a command prompt on any system, type gnuplot. It is even possible to do this over a telnet or ssh connection, and preview the graphs in text mode! For best results, however, you should run gnuplot from within X Window, gnuplot error bars so that you can see better previews of your plots. Entering Data All the data sets you use in gnuplot should be typed into a text file first. There should be one data point per line. Each data point will consist of several numbers: the independent variable, the dependent variable, and optionally error bars. Each of these fields should be separated by a tab. Actually, any number of fields may be specified on each line; this is useful if you have multiple measurements for each data point, for instance. For information about how to access this additional information in your plots, see (fixme: add section) below. You may include any extra information you want in the file, such as a description of the data, headings for each of the data columns, and so on, as long as each such line begins with the comment character, #. The dataset used in this example is available in the file cavendish.data. Plotting Functions Basic Plotting Plotting functions in gnuplot is really quite easy. Suppose you want to plot the function f(x) = exp(-x^2 / 2). In gnuplot, exponentiation uses **, not ^. So, after starting up gnuplot,
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