Box Plots

Unfortunately, Analytica does not (yet) provide a Tukey-style Box-whisker plot. A classical box-whisker plot is one that looks like this:

Classic-box-wisker.png

The wisker-ends usually represent either the min and max range of data, or the 10% and 90% fractiles. The top and bottom of the box denotes the 25% and 75% quartiles, with the middle line being the median.

Analytica's probability bands graph is used to depict the same type information, but in a different format:

ProbBands-plot.png

As a substitute for a box-whisker plot, you can consider what I'll call a box-box-box plot:

Box-box-box-plot.png

Or, in the other direction, a whisker-whisker-whisker plot:

Whisker-whisker-whisker-plot.png

While the topmost box-whisker plot is not currently available in Analytica 4.4, all three of the other variations are possible using Analytica's graphing engine. All three plots depict the same information.

Probability Bands Plot

The probability bands plot is immediate in the result view when viewing an uncertain quantity that has at least one other dimension (usually a time dimension). Just select the ProbBands view in the top-left corner of the result view.

ProbBands-select.png

Box-Box-Box plots

To obtain a box-box-box plot, select a ProbBands result view, then double click to change the chart type settings. Select a bar chart, check the "Variable origin", and uncheck "Swap horizontal and vertical".

Box-box-box-graphSetup.png

Next, press Ctrl+U (Uncertainty Settings) and select the probability levels of interest:

Box-box-box-probability-levels.png

Finally, ensure your horizontal axis is your time index, Key is Probability, and then for Bar Origin select Probability=0 (or your lowest selected fractile):

Box-box-box-plot.png

Whisker-Whisker-Whisker plots

Whisker-XY-setting.png

Whisker-ChartType-setting.png

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