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Present CoS results as a user-controlled confidence band

The current plot shows the 75%, 50%, 25%, and 10% lines. Per this discord conversation[1], would it be better to just have all but 10% and shade between 75 and 25, and allow the user to set the upper and lower bounds? This would look more like a traditional non-parametric confidence interval and be clearer.

WARNING! Quantiles become very erratic towards the upper and lower bounds, so it probably would be dangerous and misleading to allow the user to choose anything more extreme than 95%/5% for the bounds

[1]https://discord.com/channels/869222901054857216/1429907360251515060/1443490095297462343

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Suggested 27 November 2025 by user Mark Miller

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  • 27 November 2025 Mark Miller suggested this task

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    Mark Miller

    I was thinking more about this. Part of what makes PL so great is a balance between simplicity and complexity. Adding yet another widget so users can control the confidence intervals could fall in the “gimmick” bucket. Perhaps a contour plot or heat map would be simpler and more informative. A heatmap would include some possibly erroneous interpolation–would need careful consideration. Note: choose the color scheme carefully. Consider color-blindness and that many color gradients do not properly map values to gradient changes. Much research has gone into fixing this. See the viridis color scheme as an example. However, this would not match the color-scheme of PL.

    30 November 2025

  • 30 November 2025 Shawn @PL approved this task