[Tex/LaTex] Methods for graphing simulation data

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I ran a large bootstrap simulation to gather data which I would now like to include in my paper. Currently, I have the data in an Excel spreadsheet so I could get a quick overview of what my results were. The data consists of the following:

  • 2000 samples, where each sample has an "average" and "95% confidence" value
  • The average values are plotted as the blue line in this graph from Excel
  • The positive error bars show the outermost data point after the largest 2.5% values were removed (the 95% confidence value).
  • Note: I am not trying to reproduce the exact style of this plot. I am only interested in producing the best representation of the data for my paper.

Example graphics from Excel

Specific questions:

  1. How would you represent the data and produce a similar graphical representation in LaTeX?
  2. In total there are 3 of these Excel graphs, representing simulations under 3 different conditions. It would be nice to have the option of plotting all 3 results on the same graph. How might this be achieved?

Best Answer

1: Column wise: x y error. pgfplots can produce such graphs. For this amount of data lualatex should be used (pdftex might produce a memory overrun and/or consume much time)

2: Possible with a custom environment e.g. But since you should use a different file for every data set, a simple copy and paste would do.

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