histogram
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈhɪstəˌɡɹæm/
histogram (plural histograms)
- (statistics) A graphical display of numerical data in the form of upright bars, with the area of each bar representing frequency.
- 1983, Alan Meier, Janice Wright, Arthur H. Rosenfeld, Supplying Energy Through Greater Efficiency: The Potential for Conservation, University of California Press, page 39 ↗,
- Such distinctions, however, require detailed information, such as histograms of the distribution of energy use among residential customers, both by month and by year.
- 2005, D. W. Scott, S. R. Sain, Multidimensional density estimation, C. R. Rao, E. J. Wegman, J. L. Solka (editors) Data Mining and Data Visualization, Elsevier, [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=fEgUjUPCtsEC&pg=PA237&dq=%22Histogram%22%7C%22Histograms%22+-intitle:histogram%7Chistograms&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj9kpDotdvXAhWLjFQKHejLAUIQ6AEILTAB#v=onepage&q=%22Histogram%22%7C%22Histograms%22%20-intitle%3Ahistogram%7Chistograms&f=false page 237],
- The use of the piecewise linear frequency polygon (FP) in place of the underlying histogram would seem mainly a graphical advantage.
- 2017, David R. Anderson, Dennis J. Sweeney, Thomas A. Williams, Jeffrey D. Camm, James J. Cochran, Essentials of Statistics for Business and Economics, Cengage Learning, [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=MQAxDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA44&dq=%22Histogram%22%7C%22Histograms%22+-intitle:histogram%7Chistograms&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj9kpDotdvXAhWLjFQKHejLAUIQ6AEIPTAE#v=onepage&q=%22Histogram%22%7C%22Histograms%22%20-intitle%3Ahistogram%7Chistograms&f=false page 44],
- A histogram is constructed by placing the variable of interest on the horizontal axis and the frequency, relative frequency or percent frequency on the vertical axis. […] Histograms for data found in applications are never perfectly symmetric, but the histogram for many applications may be roughly symmetric.
- 1983, Alan Meier, Janice Wright, Arthur H. Rosenfeld, Supplying Energy Through Greater Efficiency: The Potential for Conservation, University of California Press, page 39 ↗,
- French: histogramme
- German: Histogramm
- Portuguese: histograma
- Russian: гистогра́мма
- Spanish: histograma
histogram (histograms, present participle histogramming; past and past participle histogrammed)
- (transitive) To represent (data) as a histogram.
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