Figure 3.
Violin plot of both single-agent standardised doses and standardised time. A violin plot combines features of a boxplot to features of a histogram in the same figure. The central candlestick has three components: the thick part displays the IQR, the white dot the median, and the thin vertical lines the whiskers of a boxplot. On both sides of the candlestick lies a smoothed histogram (regimen-C on the left and regimen-DI on the right). When the violin is symmetric, then the distribution of the quantity is the same in both regimens. This is true for the first two panels (δDOX and δCDDP), but not for the rightmost (τ). Yet, the two halves of the violin of τ do overlap for a substantial part, reflecting the findings of table 1. Patients who discontinued after the first cycle are present. For these patients, τ=0 and consequently, the support of the violin of τ extends to negative values.