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request: boxplots + confidence interval notch

See original GitHub issue

Would love for vl’s boxplots to be able to draw a confidence interval notch (as available in R), as here

One possible interface, notch_ci default is 0.95.

{
  "mark": "boxplot",
 "notch": true,
 "notch_ci": 0.95
}

This is an invaluable viz technique for both teaching and median comparison

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Created 2 years ago
Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

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domoritzcommented, Jun 7, 2021

Interesting. I had not seen this before. If you want to add it, we would be happy to review a pull request.

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dan-reznikcommented, Oct 3, 2021

Sorry I lost track of this issue – here are updated images (googling “boxplot notch”) gets us many other examples

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