barerrorbar

Create a bar plot with error bars.

Description

Barerrorbar() creates a bar plot with error bars. Although, not the first function to accomplish this task, barerrorbar() differs in that it directly calls the MATLAB functions bar() and errorbar() so that the options of both functions are preserved. For example:

x = 0.2*randn(3,4,100) + 1;
xMeans = mean(x,3);
xMeansL = repmat(3*0.2/10,3,4);
xMeansU = repmat(4*0.2/10,3,4);
barerrorbar({3:5,xMeans,'m'}, {repmat((3:5)',1,4),...
xMeans, xMeansL,xMeansU,'bx'});

Acknowledgements

The author wishes to acknowledge the following in the creation of this submission:
BarsWithError, Barerror

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.1.0 (R14SP3)
• Other requirements: Does NOT work for 'stack' bar plots.

[Leah Acker]

Great program.

[Carolina Wählby]

Beautiful!
I tried hard to find this functionality in Matlab, but almost decided to do my plotting in Excel to get arrorbars on my barplots... Thanks!

[Darik]

Perfect. Every other bar/errorbar function on the FEX should be deleted.

[ollydbg]

Great! It is better than the other bar and error bar related code

[Luka]

 

[Daniel]

Very useful, is there anyway to make the error bars one sided? By that I mean to only have the top half of the error bar showing as opposed to the entire thing?

[omzaz]

For the final figure in the example code, I want to set the first group of bars (at x = 1) black and the second group (at x = 2) red.

Adapting the example code, I assumed I could do this:
figure
barerrorbar({1,xMeans(1,:),'k'}, {[1 1 1 1],xMeans(1,:), xMeansL(1,:),xMeansU(1,:),'bx'});
hold on
barerrorbar({2,xMeans(2,:),'r'}, {[2 2 2 2],xMeans(2,:), xMeansL(2,:),xMeansU(2,:),'bx'});

However, this gives an error. Could someone please advise on what the code should be?
Thanks.