Automatic computation of errorbars in gnuplot

Question

I know that errorbars or candlebars with whiskerbars can be plotted by gnuplot by giving it mean, max, min, deviation...

Is there a way how to compute these automatically? I have got a file, each line should be one errorbar, first column is x, another eleven columns are distinct measurements of some f(x).

Ethan · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-26 22:47:03Z

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I will show how to plot error bars representing +/- sigma. You can adjust the formulae to suit if you want error bars representing unbiased standard error or min/max or something else.

# N is the number of data columns, i.e. columns 2 through N+1
sumx(N) = sum [i=2:N+1] column(i)
sumx2(N) = sum [i=2:N+1] column(i) * column(i)

mean(N) = sumx(N) / N
sigma(N) = sqrt( sumx2(N)/N - (sumx(N)/N)**2 )

N=11
plot 'datafile' using (column(1)) : (mean(N)) : (sigma(N)) with yerrorbars

answered Sep 26, 2018 at 22:47

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