Hi, is it possible to change the width of a box in boxplot if 'BoxStyle' is set to 'filled'?

I have tried using 'Widths' but it doesn't seem to have any effect on the boxes themselves? Thanks, Rebecca

[Jan]

Please post a relevant part of your code, which reproduces the problem.

[Tejas]

>> boxplot(MPG)
>> boxplot(MPG, 'Widths',34)

This works for me. Please do share your code.

[MNouv]

Hello, I see that this post has not been solved and I have the same problem. The 'widths' command only changes the size of the median line, not of the box itself... Any idea how to fix this?

Answer 1

[Giorgio Mirone]

Try this:

a = get(get(gca,'children'),'children');   % Get the handles of all the objects
t = get(a,'tag');   % List the names of all the objects 
idx=strcmpi(t,'box');  % Find Box objects
boxes=a(idx);          % Get the children you need
set(boxes,'linewidth',10); % Set width

[Ben Oeveren]

Or you can make a Patch on the same position. I find that more convienient. It is a same that Matlab has not used a Patch in the first place. It would improve the posibilities.

box_h = findobj(hb2,'Tag','Box');
for i = 1:length(box_h)
    hp(i) = patch([box_h(i).XData],[box_h(i).YData],colors(i,:),'FaceAlpha',.2);
end
uistack(box_h,'bottom')