How to add std to heatmap cell?
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I need to add std to the heatmap so that instead of showing 68.64 in the below heatmap, it shows 68.64 plus or minus STD.

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Sugar Daddy
on 1 Jun 2020
like what
68.46 ± 0.2
or any of the below value
68.64
68.26
Adam Danz
on 1 Jun 2020
In heatmap plots, cells contain scalar numeric values. To show two values or to show a value +/- value, you would need to replace the numeric scalars with strings or character arrays or numeric vectors. That isn't possible.
The best you can do is to
- Overlay a 2nd axes (see this answer for a demo)
- Use the text() function to write the std to each cell.
I would offer a demo in the answers section but you don't accept answers very frequently which is a demotivator.
Zeynab Mousavikhamene
on 1 Jun 2020
Zeynab Mousavikhamene
on 2 Jun 2020
Adam Danz
on 5 Jan 2022
VIDHYA GANESAN's answer moved here as a comment.
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Hi,
Did you get answer for your question?
I have a similar problem where in I need to plot heatmap with its standard deviation.
I tried to create another axis to overlay on the heatmap. But it did not work fine.
Could you please share how you resolved this query?
Thanks
Vidhya
Adam Danz
on 5 Jan 2022
@VIDHYA GANESAN, heatmaps are difficult to customize. One alternative is to use imagesc instead. Here's a demo showing how achieve that and how to change the labels.
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