Median line representation in boxplot

I converted the boxplot color to black. So i want to distinguish median with different pattern. I tried giving notch option to boxplot. But that does not look nice. Is there any way to represent median in dotted lines?? or any other nice representation???

Answer 1

[Wayne King]

Can you please show an example, because the color of the median line defaults to red. So I don't think I understand what you're saying. At any rate, you can modify that line like this:

load carsmall;
boxplot(MPG)
h = findobj(gca,'tag','Median');
set(h,'linestyle','-.');
set(h,'Color',[0 0 0])

[Divya]

As an example,

 figure
h = boxplot(abs((t_base)-(t_60min)),'notch','on','sym','k*',   'colors','k');title('Base 60min')
set(h,{'linew'},{2})

Here when the color black is chosen for whole boxplot, then the median is not distinguished. So i enabled notch to 'on'. So that the median is distinguish with sharp edges. But when there is a case the 25th percentile and the median are same, then the median looks like horns. As an example i am attaching the image link below

The example you gave is working. But still when the median and 25th percentile are same, we can not distinguish the median.