Hadley makes a good point. Boxplots should be standardized. Thre is already inconsistency in what value the "wiskers" represent.
Violin plots with means and 95% CI are a good option if you want to show the shape of a distribution with the mean. You could add the median as well. That's what I did in the code I posted in this thread: http://www.nabble.com/adding-the-mean-and-standard-deviation-to-boxplots-td15271398.html hadley wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 10:36 PM, Chad Junkermeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> I really like the ease of use with the boxplot command in R. I would >> rather >> have a boxplot that shows the average value and the standard deviation >> then >> the median value and the quartiles. > > I would suggest that you don't do this. Most people looking at the > boxplots will expect to see the tradition Tukey boxplot with medians > and quartiles, and are likely to misinterpret the graph. > > Why do you want to display means and standard deviations? > > Hadley > > > -- > http://had.co.nz/ > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/boxplot-with-average-instead-of-median-tp18826179p18853580.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
