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Notched Boxplot (JFreechart)

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This node generates notched boxplots of categorical data.

The boxplot shows the following:

  • The box shows the interquartile range (IQR; Q1 to Q3)
  • The whiskers show the extent of the 'regular' values - i.e the range of the actual values within 1.5 * IQR of the IQR
  • The mean is shown as an open circle with a cross in, which may or may not be within the box
  • The median is shown as a line crossing the box
  • The notch shows the 95% confidence interval of the median, defined as +/- 1.57 * IQR / sqrt(N), where N is the number of values. The notch is centred on the median, and may extend beyond the ends of the boxes
  • Outliers are shown as 'o' beyond the whiskers. Outliers are in the range 1.5 * IQR to 2 * IQR beyond the IQR
  • Extreme outliers are shown as 'x' beyond the whiskers. Outliers are beyond 2* IQR beyond the IQR
See this page for details and references The chart is coloured as follows:

If the 2nd Port is null, then the colour is as follows.

  • The outline and whisker are the specified default outline colour
  • If there is a ColorModel on the 1st port for the category column, then the fill is from the colour model
  • If no colormodel, or it is not on the category column, then the fill colour is the specified default fill colour

If the 2nd port is connected, then it must contain a single string column with a colour model associated to it. The column must contain the names of the series columns (Using an Extract Column Header -> Transpose -> Color Manager sequence of nodes achieves this). Now, the colouring is as follows:

Outline & Whisker

  • If there is a ColorModel on the 1st port for the category column, then the outline is from the colour model
  • If no colormodel, or it is not on the category column, then the outline is the default outline colour specified

Fill

  • If there is a single StringCell column in the second table, then the series fill colours come from the color model
  • If not, or for series names not represented, the fill colour is the default fill colour specified.
For general settings of the generated image, see the "General Plot Options" Tab.

Node details

Input ports
  1. Type: Table
    Data table
    Data table with at least one categorical column and one numerical column
  2. Type: Table
    Series Colours
    Optional table with series colours - see above for further details
Output ports
  1. Type: Image
    Image
    The image of the plot (SVG or PNG)

Extension

The Notched Boxplot (JFreechart) node is part of this extension:

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