Matplotlib boxplot using precalculated (summary) statistics

Question

I need to do a boxplot (in Python and matplotlib) but I do not have the original \"raw\" data. What I have are precalculated values for max, min, mean, median and IQR (norma

Answer 1

In the old versions, you have to manually do it by changing boxplot elements individually:

Mean=[3.4] #mean
IQR=[3.0,3.9] #inter quantile range
CL=[2.0,5.0] #confidence limit
A=np.random.random(50)
D=plt.boxplot(A) # a simple case with just one variable to boxplot
D['medians'][0].set_ydata(Mean)
D['boxes'][0]._xy[[0,1,4], 1]=IQR[0]
D['boxes'][0]._xy[[2,3],1]=IQR[1]
D['whiskers'][0].set_ydata(np.array([IQR[0], CL[0]]))
D['whiskers'][1].set_ydata(np.array([IQR[1], CL[1]]))
D['caps'][0].set_ydata(np.array([CL[0], CL[0]]))
D['caps'][1].set_ydata(np.array([CL[1], CL[1]]))
_=plt.ylim(np.array(CL)+[-0.1*np.ptp(CL), 0.1*np.ptp(CL)]) #reset the limit