Warning: I'm very new to using python.
I'm trying to graph data using error bars but my data has different values for the error above and below the bar, i.e. 2+.75,2-.32.
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
# example data
x = (1,2,3,4)
y = (1,2,3,4)
# example variable error bar values
yerr = 0.2
plt.figure()
plt.errorbar(x, y, yerr,"r^")
plt.show()
But I want the error bar above the point to be a specific value like .17 and below the point to be a specific point like .3 Does anyone know how to do this?
Thanks!
Like this:
plt.errorbar(x, y, np.array([[0.3]*len(x), [0.17]*len(x)]), fmt='r^')
Pass an array of shape (2,n)
with the -errors on the first row and the +errors on the second.
(Note also that you need to explicitly pass your format string r^
to the fmt
argument).
If you want different error bars on each point, you can pass them in this (2,n)
array. You typically have a list of -err and +err value pairs for each data point in order, in which case you can build the necessary array as the transpose of this list:
yerr = np.array([(0.5,0.5), (0.3,0.17), (0.1, 0.3), (0.1,0.3)]).T
plt.errorbar(x, y, yerr, fmt='r^')
plt.show()
This is described (more-or-less) in the docs.