Controlling boxplots in Matlab

Controlling Boxplots in Matlab

Controlling boxplots in Matlab

The tricky problems I found was 
1) in controlling the width of the lines for the outlines of the boxes in the boxplots and

       h=boxplot(DATA,Vect)
       for ih=1:numRowsOfDATA
          set(h(ih,:),'LineWidth',2); % Set the line width of the Box outlines here
       end


2) changing the fontsize of the axis labels for X axes! 

for example, 

       box on %would only impact one of the axes - Yaxes ! 

The work around to increase size of XTicks was: 

      set(findobj(gca,'Type','text'),'FontSize',12,'fontWeight','bold') % to set Xaxis
      set(gca,'FontSize',12,'Fontweight','bold') % to set Yaxis
      
      
      

matlab_boxplots_linewidth_example.m

    clear all
    close all
    a=rand(5)*100
    %figure To create default box plot of matlab
    subplot 221
    h=boxplot(a)
    %figure To change the linewidth of the box plot,
    subplot 222
    hl=boxplot(a)
    for ih=1:6
    set(hl(ih,:),'LineWidth',2);
    end
    %figure To change the color of the blox plot, here green is used
    subplot 223
    hc=boxplot(a,'Color','g')
    %figure, To change colour as well as linewidth
    subplot 224
    hlc=boxplot(a,'Color','r')
    for ih=1:6
    set(hlc(ih,:),'LineWidth',2);
    end
    % taken from : http://vikas-ke-funde.blogspot.com.es/2009/04/matlab-boxplot-how-to-change-line-width.html

Change line width of markers for outliers as well:

hlc=boxplot(...);
for ih=1:7, set(hlc(ih,:),'LineWidth',2); end