--descplot

Switch

--descplot

Description

Produce histograms and boxplots for specified outcomes.

Argument and Default Value

No argument. Boolean switch, default: False.

Details

Writes one histogram (<file>_<outcome>_hist.png) and one boxplot (<file>_<outcome>_box.png) per outcome in --outcomes, using the raw values from --outcome_table. Files are written to --output_name if given, otherwise to a generated filename under --output_dir. Useful as a sanity check on outcome distributions before running --correlate or a prediction workflow.

Known issue: as of this writing, this switch calls StatsPlotter(args.corpdb), but StatsPlotter.__init__ takes (heights=700, widths=700) — no database argument — so the corpus name is passed in as the plot height. It then calls sp.plotDescStats(outcome_to_values, len(groups), outputFile) against a signature of plotDescStats(dataDict, filename=None, n_breaks=None, ...), so the group count lands in filename and the real output path lands in n_breaks. --descplot does not currently produce usable output.

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