how to make the empty area of the boxplot smaller?

Here is the code I use:

boxplot(Tmean_split.pixels,'widths',0.1)

I want to make the empty area around the box smaller. There is huge empty area befor and after number 1 in x-axis and I want to make it smaller. How can I do that?

I used

xlim([0.9 1.1])

but it made the width of box larger which I dont want.

[KALYAN ACHARJYA]

Can you provide the code to generate above mentioned plot?

[Zeynab Mousavikhamene]

a=[3987,1269,1.032250000000000e+04,2784,6.331500000000000e+03,1515];
boxplot(a)
%xlim([0.9 1.1])
boxplot(Tmean_split.pixels,'widths',0.1)

Answer 1

[Abhilash Padma]

You could use the “PlotBoxAspectRatio” property of axes to decrease the size of x-axis so that you can make the empty area of the boxplot smaller. See the following code:

a=[3987,1269,1.032250000000000e+04,2784,6.331500000000000e+03,1515];
ax=axes;
boxplot(ax,a);
ax.PlotBoxAspectRatio=[0.3 1 1];