Place BoxWhiskerChart onto plot

Question

Suppose I have two plots: one which is a generic curve, the other is a box whisker chart of data. How can I overlay the two (with the outliers removed)?

randGen = RandomReal[{0, 1}, {10, 100}];
p1 = Plot[1 - x, {x, 0, 1}, Frame -> True, FrameLabel -> {"x", "y"}]
BoxWhiskerChart[randGen,
 "Outliers",
 ChartStyle -> "Pastel",
 FrameLabel -> {"", "x"}]

If possible, is it easy to invert the axis of the box-whisker chart so that the y-axis becomes the x-axis? The y-coordinate of the box plots will be fed by a list.

Answer 1

You can combine two plots by using Show:

randGen = RandomReal[{0, 1}, {10, 100}];
p1 = Plot[1 - x/10, {x, 0, 10}, Frame -> True, FrameLabel -> {"x", "y"}];
p2 = BoxWhiskerChart[randGen, ChartStyle -> "Pastel", 
   FrameLabel -> {"", "x"}];
Show[p1, p2]

Note that I have scaled the curve and changed the range. To hide the outliers, I have removed "Outliers".

To swap the axes, use the option BarOrigin:

BoxWhiskerChart[randGen, ChartStyle -> "Pastel", BarOrigin -> Right]

However, the boxes will be stacked one on another with the spacing that you can control with the option BarSpacing. There seems to be no easy way to manually provide the $y$ coordinates of the boxes.