Binned Scatter Plot

plot quantiles of y given quantiles of x.
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With the default settings, BINNED_PLOT(X,Y) splits vector X into bins of approximately equal size, and plots each median against the median of the corresponding Y-values, as well as their inter-quartile range. X and Y must have the same number of rows or columns.

This is useful to visualize two-dimensional distributions.

Options include e.g.: plotting different quantiles; means/variances instead of quantiles; varying the number of bins; and density-dependent coloring.

Example:
x=0:0.1:20;
y=[sin(x); cos(x)] +randn(2,201);
binned_plot(x,y)

Cite As

Stefan Schroedl (2024). Binned Scatter Plot (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/19506-binned-scatter-plot), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

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Created with R2007a
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Version Published Release Notes
1.1.0.0

- Bug fixes: rare cases of empty bins; show minimum and maximum x-value
- New options: density-based transparency; mean/std instead of quantiles (useful for quantized data)
- Optional arguments specified as attribute/value pairs

1.0.0.0