How to compare a series of 50 values to a single value for each sample in a plot?

Hi,

I want to compare a set of 50 values to a single value for each sample on a plot.

For example, for sample S1, I have 50 values and I want to show these values as a vertical line and then show where a single other value stands compared to these 50 values for S1, then do the same for the rest of the samples. So I want my x-axis to be S1, S2, S3, etc...and my y-axis to show the 50 values and the single value on top of each other or overlapping (depending on what the numerical values are). For example, for sample 1, my Y-values are:[0.6875, 0.6978, 0.7171...up to 50 values] and my x is 0.9180. I checked the available plots and also the plot gallery but couldn't find exactly what I was looking for.

Hope this makes sense, and someone can help me to create this plot.

Thanks.

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

I am not certain what you want.

See if this works for you:

y = sort(rand(50,5));                               % Dependent Values
x = sort(rand(1,5));                                % Independent Variable
v = rand(1,5);                                      % ‘Single Value’ To Compare

figure(1)
plot(x, y, '.b')                                    % Plot Data As Blue Dots
hold on
plot(x, v, 'sr', 'MarkerSize',10)                   % Plot Comparison Value As Red Squares
hold off

Answer 2

[alice]

I don't know if you have your data in structure arrays, vectors or others, but is this example similar to what you want to achieve?

% fake data generation:
data = [];
for i = 1:7
    data = [data,struct('Y',10*randi(10)*rand(50),'x',randi(15))];
end
% figure generation:
figure; hold on;
for i = 1:length(data)
    plot(i*ones(50,1),data(i).Y);
    plot(i,data(i).x,'d');
end
set(gca,'xtick',1:length(data),'xticklabel',strcat('S',num2str((1:length(data))')));