Plot many horizontal Bar Plots in the same graph

Question

I need to plot a x-y function, that shows the histograms at x-values. Something similar to the bottom plot of the next figure:

I tried to use matlab's "barh", but can't plot many in the same figure. Any ideas?

Or, maybe displacing the origin (baseline, basevalue in barseries properties) of successive plots would work. How could I do that for barh?

thanks.

Answer 1

Using 'Position' of axes property

% generate "data"
m = rand( 40,10 ); 
[n x] = hist( m, 50 );

% the actual plotting
figure; 
ma = axes('Position',[.1 .1 .8 .8] );  % "parent" axes
N = size(n,2);  % number of vertical bars
for ii=1:N, 
   % create an axes inside the parent axes for the ii-the barh
   sa = axes('Position', [0.1+(ii-1)*.8/N, 0.1, .8/N, .8]); % position the ii-th barh
   barh( x, n(:,ii), 'Parent', sa); 
   axis off;
end