shadedErrorBar
shadedErrorBar is a MATLAB function that creates a continuous shaded error region around a line rather than discrete bars.
The error region can either be specified explicitly or calculated on the fly based on function handles.
The appearance of the plot can be modified via input arguments and/or the handles of the returned plot objects.
You will need OpenGL enabled for transparency to work.
Examples
Basic example with overlaid points
% Prepare data
y=randn(30,80)*5;
x=(1:size(y,2))-40;
yP = sin( linspace(-2*pi,2*pi,length(x)) )*20;
y = bsxfun(@plus,y,yP)+60;
% Make the plot
clf
shadedErrorBar(x,y,{@mean,@std});
% Overlay the raw data
hold on
plot(x,y,'.','color',[0.5,0.5,0.95])
grid on
Overlaying multiple lines
% Prepare data for first line
y=ones(30,1)*x;
y=y+0.06*y.^2+randn(size(y))*10;
clf
shadedErrorBar(x,y,{@mean,@std},'lineprops','-b','patchSaturation',0.33)
% Overlay second line
hold on
shadedErrorBar(x,2*y+20,{@mean,@std},'lineprops',{'-go','MarkerFaceColor','g'});
%Overlay third line
y=randn(30,80)*5;
x=(1:size(y,2))-40;
yP = sin( linspace(-2*pi,2*pi,length(x)) )*20;
y = bsxfun(@plus,y,yP)+60;
% Make this line non-transparent
shadedErrorBar(x, y, {@mean,@std}, 'lineprops', '-r','transparent',false,'patchSaturation',0.075)
grid on
Modifying plot properties post-hoc
% Prepare data
y=randn(30,80)*5;
x=(1:size(y,2));
yP = sin( linspace(-2*pi,2*pi,length(x)) )*20;
y = bsxfun(@plus,y,yP);
% Plot
clf
s = shadedErrorBar(x, y, {@mean,@std}, 'lineprops', '-r');
% Set face and edge properties
set(s.edge,'LineWidth',2,'LineStyle',':')
s.mainLine.LineWidth = 5;
s.patch.FaceColor = [0.5,0.25,0.25];
% Overlay data points post-hoc
hold on
plot(s.mainLine.XData, s.mainLine.YData,'or','MarkerFaceColor','w')
grid on
set(gca,'XTickLabel',[],'YTickLabel',[])
Change Log
15tth November 2022
- Allow targing to a specific axis
8th Novemeber 2019
- Merge Octave support from JarlPed
24th November 2017
- Add
patchSaturationas an optional argument.
6th August 2017
- Parameter/value pairs for input arguments greater than 3.
- Transparency on by default.
- No longer changes the renderer.
Contributing
If you wish to contribute please fork the repo, check out the dev branch and make your changes there, then file a pull request describing what you did.
Licensing
This code is licensed under the lesser GPL v3. See LICENSE file in the repository.