large errorbars on semilogx

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Sonali 2024-3-18

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I am trying to plot mid vs columns. And I am getting either partial or very elongated errorbars. Please find the datafile and plot below. Will really appreciate a solutions to this issue. Thanks.

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What's the difference between the logarithm of 1 and the logarithm of 2?

format longg
x1 = log([1 2])
x1 = 1×2
                         0         0.693147180559945
delta1 = diff(x1)
delta1 = 
         0.693147180559945

Now what's the difference between the logarithms of 11 and 12?

x2 = log([11 12])
x2 = 1×2
          2.39789527279837            2.484906649788
delta2 = diff(x2)
delta2 = 
        0.0870113769896297

How much larger is the difference between logarithms?

delta1/delta2
ans = 
          7.96616723629781

So an errorbar of length 1 will be drawn much longer (about 8 times as long) if it starts around x = 1 than if it starts around x = 11. What value would you have to use as the right endpoint for the x = 11 errorbar to make it appear as long as the errorbar of length 1 starting at x = 1?

x3right = exp(x2(1)+delta1)

x3right =

22

semilogx([1 2 NaN 11 12 NaN 11 x3right], [1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3])

ylim([0 4])

The line at y = 1 looks to be about the same length as the one at y = 3.

A quick check on my monitor with a ruler shows that the line at y = 2 is about an eighth as long as the lines at y = 1 and y = 3.

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Sonali 2024-3-19

any solution to that?

Steven Lord 2024-3-19

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Solution to what? To making the error bars longer?

Either don't use a log scale on the axes or change your data about how long the error bars should be. In my example, the approach involving x3right was an example of the latter. For an example of the former:

plot([1 2 NaN 11 12], [1 1 1 2 2])

ylim([0 3])

These lines are the same length on my screen.

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What you see is because of the log XScale:

Partial errorbars: If the left endpoint of the errorbar would be <= 0, it is not rendered on log scale, because log of a number <= 0 is complex or -Inf.
Elongated errorbars: also an effect of logarithmic x-scaling. For example, a unit-length segment takes up more space in the plot if it goes from 1 to 2 than it takes if it goes from 10 to 11 (that's just how logarithmic scales work).

semilogx([1 2],[1 1])

hold on

semilogx([10 11],[1 1])

xlim([0.1 100])

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"When I use scatterplot and plot log values. I dont get the same problem."

If you try to scatter plot a point with a non-positive x-coordinate on a log x-scale plot, you will get the same problem. Notice the warning, and notice that only one point appears even though I gave scatter two points.

figure()

scatter([-1 2],[1 2])

set(gca,'XScale','log')

drawnow(); % to see the warning:

Warning: Negative data ignored

"Is there any solution for this?"

First, some data generating a non-positive errorbar left endpoint:

x = 1:10;
y = 1:10;
err = 2*ones(1,10);
err(1) = 3; % make the first errorbar go negative ( 1 - 3/2 = -0.5 < 0 )

Plotting the errorbars the usual way gives a cut-off errorbar and a warning:

figure()

errorbar(x,y,[],[],err/2,err/2,'LineStyle','none','Marker','v')

set(gca(),'XScale','log')

ylim([0 11])

drawnow(); % to see the warning:

Warning: Negative data ignored

One solution is to limit the plotted errors so that the errorbar endpoints are all positive.

xmin = 0.01; % pick the lower x-limit you want the plot to have

% adjust the left error widths:

left_err = err/2;

idx = x-left_err<=0;

left_err(idx) = x(idx)-xmin;

% plot errorbars with those new left widths (right widths remain the same as before):

figure()

errorbar(x,y,[],[],left_err,err/2,'LineStyle','none','Marker','v')

set(gca(),'XScale','log')

ylim([0 11])

Voss 2024-3-19

编辑：Voss 2024-3-19

Please share your code, at least the line of code where you call the errorbar function.

Or compare your errorbar call to mine and figure out what you need to change to make it work.

Sonali 2024-3-19

figure()

set(gca(),'XScale','log')

semilogx((col1),mid,'*m',LineStyle='none',LineWidth=1.5,MarkerSize= 5 )

hold on

errorbar(col1,mid,(err_col1),'horizontal',LineStyle='none', Color='m',LineWidth = 0.1,CapSize=2)

grid on

hold off

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