Putting uncertainty on a scatter

[PythagoreLove]

Hi, first of all, sorry if my English is not perfect I'm from Quebec City and English is not my first language.

I'm trying to make a scatter plot with average of numerical data. But now I also want to put the standard deviation on the scatter.

Exemple, I have a point (x,[y ± σ]) and I want to have a point on my coordinate (x,y) and a line that goes to x - σ to x + σ. Thank you


PythagoreLove

 

[PythagoreLove]

Sorry I forgot to say, I need vertical and horizontal error bars

 

[Bill Simpson]

What tool do you want to use to produce this?

 

[PythagoreLove]

Sorry I finally got it, I was working on MatLab and I used the function errorbar and a function made by a user called herrorbar for my horizontal

 

[alphy]

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Thank you for your question. Adding uncertainty to a scatter plot can be a useful way to visualize the variability in your data. To do this, you can plot each data point with its corresponding standard deviation as you mentioned. This will give you a point on your coordinate (x,y) and a line that extends from x - σ to x + σ. This will help to show the range of values for each data point and give a better understanding of the overall variability in your data set. Additionally, you can also consider using error bars to represent the uncertainty, which would be a vertical line extending from each data point to the upper and lower bounds of the standard deviation. This can make it easier to compare the variability between different data points. I hope this helps and best of luck with your scatter plot!