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Xyerrorbars

The xyerrorbars style is only relevant to 2-d data plots. xyerrorbars is like dots, except that horizontal and vertical error bars are also drawn. At each point (x,y), lines are drawn from (x,y-ydelta) to (x,y+ydelta) and from (x-xdelta,y) to (x+xdelta,y) or from (x,ylow) to (x,yhigh) and from (xlow,y) to (xhigh,y), depending upon the number of data columns provided. A tic mark is placed at the ends of the error bar (unless set bars is used -- see set bars (p. [*]) for details).

If data are provided in an unsupported mixed form, the using filter on the plot command should be used to set up the appropriate form. For example, if the data are of the form (x,y,xdelta,ylow,yhigh), then you can use


     plot 'data' using 1:2:($1-$3):($1+$3):4:5 with xyerrorbars



Ethan Merritt 2007-03-03