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Fabian
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8/4/08
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Re: Error bars in Matlab
Posted:
Aug 25, 2009 11:34 PM
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"david szotten" <szotten@hotmail.com> wrote in message <fucptp$icn$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Hi,
>
> a bit annoying to do, since the ends are actually part of
> the plot itself. think the code below does the trick (may
> submit at some point)
>
>
> removeErrorBarEnds.m :
> -------------
> function removeErrorBarEnds(hErrBar)
> %removeErrorBarEnds
> % removeErrorBarEnds(hErrBar) removes the lines
> above/below errorbars
> % generated by the matlab function hErrBar = errorbar()
> %
> % Example:
> % x = 1:10;
> % y = sin(x);
> % e = std(y)*ones(size(x));
> % h = errorbar(x,y,e)
> % oldAx = axis;
> % removeErrorBarEnds(h)
> % axis(oldAx)
>
> % david szotten
>
> %use length of xdata to find the right handle
> %there may be an easier way to do this
> dataLen = length( get(hErrBar, 'xdata') );
>
> %objects to try, one of this is the errorbars
> candidateList = findall(hErrBar);
>
> for candidate = candidateList(:)'
> candLen = length( get(candidate, 'xdata') );
>
> %found it
> if candLen == 9 * dataLen
> xOrg = get(candidate, 'xdata');
> yOrg = get(candidate, 'ydata');
>
> %we only want the first 3 out or every 9
> valuesToExtract = find( kron( ones
> (1,dataLen), [ones(1,3) zeros(1,6)]) );
> xNew = xOrg(valuesToExtract);
> yNew = yOrg(valuesToExtract);
>
> set(candidate, 'xdata', xNew);
> set(candidate, 'ydata', yNew);
> end
> end
>
> end
> ---------------------
>
>
> regards,
> david
>
>
> peppergrower <mjjohnson.geo@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> <2924739.1208583860933.JavaMail.jakarta@nitrogen.mathforum.
> org>...
> > I'm trying to change the way error bars are displayed in
> Matlab. Currently I'm using the errorbar command. It
> works great, except for one thing: I don't want the small
> horizontal lines at the top and bottom of the error bars.
> I have a lot of data points on this plot, and it looks
> really messy having all those extra horizontal lines. Is
> there any way to turn off these, or is there possibly a
> different command that will allow me to simulate error
> bars without having the end markers?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > peppergrower
>
Thanks David works like a star,
one question, is there a way to only remove some errorbars? preferrably based upon their length? I am plotting my data in a way that for differences < 0 I only display the upper and for differences > 0 I only display the lower. So I fill arrays for ULower and UUpper for the errorbar(....) function according to the Y value and set the value to 0 if I don't want the bar. I then use your above function to remove the error tees which are still plotted even if bar length = 0, I'd like to only remove the errorbar tee for those errorbars of zero length.
thanks loads
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