How to have multiple scatter plots on one graph?

Hi,

I am trying to create a scatter graph which includes multiple sets of data. Essentially what I need is very similar to the excel barchart attached except instead of a bar which is just showing an averaged value I would like to plot multiple points.

I have tried using:

scatter(x,y); hold on; scatter(x1,y1) etc...

but can't seem to find any way to subdivide the data into the four subcategories and plot them side by side.

Answer 1

[Iain]

Isn't this what you actually want?

 x = 1:7;
 y = rand(7,7);
 bar(x,y)

[Joshua]

No. I may not have been all that clear in my first post. Instead of bars I want to have a number of points. The bar chart shown in my original post was created by averaging five points for each subcategory. What I want is to be able to show the individual results instead of an average. Something like this:

[Iain]

Ok, now I get it.

 plot(x-0.25,y,'x') 
 hold on
 plot(x1,y1,'o')
 plot(x2+0.25,y1,'d')

etc.

That'll do something similar.

[Joshua]

Thanks for that. I think I had spent too long looking for an in-built method to solve my problem. Should have just used some common sense...

Cheers.