histogram
English
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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.
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Noun
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, 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.
- 1983, Alan Meier, Janice Wright, Arthur H. Rosenfeld, Supplying Energy Through Greater Efficiency: The Potential for Conservation, University of California Press, page 39,
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Translations
graphical display
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Verb
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- (transitive) To represent (data) as a histogram.
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