histogram

English

A histogram

Alternative forms

• histogramme

Etymology

Probably from Ancient Greek ἱστός (histós, “mast”) + -γραμμα (-gramma), although it is sometimes claimed to have been derived from historical + diagram; coined in 1891 by English mathematician Karl Pearson.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɪstəˌɡɹæm/

Noun

histogram (plural histograms)

1. (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”, in C. R. Rao, E. J. Wegman, J. L. Solka, editors, Data Mining and Data Visualization, Elsevier, 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, 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.

Derived terms

• color histogram / colour histogram
• histogramatic
• image histogram

Translations

graphical display

• Bulgarian: хистогра́ма f (histográma)
• Catalan: histograma m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 直方圖／直方图 (zh) (zhífāngtú), 柱狀圖／柱状图 (zhùzhuàngtú)

• Czech: histogram (cs) m
• Danish: histogram n
• Dutch: histogram (nl) n
• Estonian: histogramm (et)
• Finnish: histogrammi (fi)
• French: histogramme (fr) m
• German: Histogramm (de) n
• Greek: ιστόγραμμα (el) n (istógramma)
• Hungarian: hisztogram (hu)
• Icelandic: súlurit n, stuðlarit n
• Irish: histeagram m
• Macedonian: хистограм m (histogram)
• Maori: kauwhata pouhere
• Polish: histogram (pl) m
• Portuguese: histograma m
• Russian: гистогра́мма (ru) f (gistográmma)
• Spanish: histograma m
• Swedish: histogram (sv) n
• Tagalog: taladalasan
• Vietnamese: biểu đồ cột

See also

• bar chart
• vertical line diagram

Verb

histogram (third-person singular simple present histograms, present participle histogramming, simple past and past participle histogrammed)

1. (transitive) To represent (data) as a histogram.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦɪstoɡram]

Noun

histogram m inan

1. histogram

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Swedish

Noun

histogram n

1. a histogram

Declension

Declension of histogram

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	histogram	histograms
	definite	histogrammet	histogrammets
plural	indefinite	histogram	histograms
	definite	histogrammen	histogrammens

References

• histogram in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• histogram in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)