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Sample OPJ to download to try: Box Plot.opj


Grouped Box Chart

  (Indexed ORG-948, Raw ORG-8510)

Origin supports plotting grouped Box chart from both Indexed Data or Raw Data.

Menus are available under Plot: Statistics menu. Buttons are available from 2D Graphs toolbar.

How to:

  • Indexed Data: 
    Add group info column to Group List. This will break the origin column into subcolumns and plot each one as a box.
  • Row Data: 
    Select the number of group level in Group Number dragdown list, specify the label rows for each group level. Each column will be plotted as a box.

Box width and position with information from Column Label Rows

  (ORG-1943,  ORG-4094)

How to:

  • Position boxes by a column label row: 
    Go to Plot Details: Plot Properties: Box tab, choose label name in  X Position dragdown.
  • Horizontal Graph: 
    Click Graph: Exange X-Y Axes menu.

More Control of Data and Box

  (ORG-5901, ORG-5881, ORG-1905)



How to:

  • Index boxes width by a column label row: 
    Go to Plot Details: Plot Properties: Box tab, check Box Width by Parameter checkbox and set Scaling Factor.
  • Draw data on top of boxes: 
    Go to Plot Details: Plot Properties: Box tab, check Draw Data on Top of Box checkbox.
  • Set Data display width:
    Go to Plot Details: Plot Properties: Data tab, input Bins Alignment: Data Width(%). If set it to 0, for example, data points will be in a line.
  • Indexing or mapping for data symbol color: 
    Go to Plot Details: Plot Properties: Symbol tab. Set Symbol Color dragdown list to be Indexing/Color Mapping, and specify a column to be the reference.

I Shape Box

  (ORG-7839)

How to:

Go to Plot Details: Plot Properties: Box tab, set Box: Style to be I-shaped Box.

Individual Controls for Whiskers Caps Median Mean and Distribution curve

(ORG-816)

 

Box Chart Legend

(ORG-4346)

Right click graph and choose Add/Update Legend Entries:Box Chart Components.

                

      

Built-in Box Chart Themes

(ORG-7916)

With Box chart graph window active, open Tools:Theme Organizer.

We provide some common box chart themes. User can apply it to quickly change box chart.

 

How to

The Sample OPJ includes 6 sample graphs to show the remarkable improvements in box chart

Grouped Box Plot with Color-indexed Data Points

 

To plot the grouped box plot

  1. Active the workbook in the folder, highlight column E through column J, select "Plot: Statistics: Grouped Box Charts - Raw Data" from Origin menu
  2. In the opened dialog, apply the settings as image below and click OK button to create a graph

 

Before we set the axes of the box chart, we prepare the number of data points of each column in "CC.MI" sheet by steps as below

  1. Highlight the rows for A386 of "CC.MI" sheet
  2. Type script below in the Script Window and press Enter. (If Script Window is not opened yet, open it from menu, Window: Script Window)
    colstats;
  3. Set the sheet name as A386_CC.MI
  4. Do the same to have C334_CC.MI sheet

 

To customized the box plot

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To set subgroup size:

1). Go to "Plot Details" dialog, Plot Properties level, "Group" tab, You will find a new control group called "Subgrouping".

2). You can choose the subgroup size in the drag-down list. Origin9.1 support subgroup size up to 14 boxes.

3). Checking the "Use Increment" checkbox to repeat the increment list in each subgroup.

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To set tick label tables:

1). Open Axis Dialog, go to "Tick Labels" page under the axis you want to put tables on.

2). Check "Table" checkbox, and detailed setting interfaces will show in the dialog.

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To index data point color:

1). Go to "Plot Details" dialog, Plot Properties level, "Box" tab, and set "Type" to show the data points. (In Graph1, type is set to "Box[Right]+Data[Left]")

2). Go to "Symbol" tab, set your symbol type and choose the index column in color drag-down list. (In Graph1, symbol is open circle and edge color is indexed by col(B))

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To custom Whisker, Cap, Median, Mean or Distribution Curve:

1). Go to "Plot Details" dialog, Plot Properties level, "Lines" tab.

2). Each line details can be customized. (In Graph2&4, whisker color is set to Gray and Cap length is 0, mean/madian line s are also customlized)

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To set I-Shape Box and Outliers aligned in a line:

1). Go to "Plot Details" dialog, Plot Properties level, "Box" tab, and set "Style" to "I-Shape box".

2). Check "Outliers" checkbox and "Outliers in a line" checkbox to show outliers. (Graph3)

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