histogram
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]Noun
[edit]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”, 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
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[edit]graphical display
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See also
[edit]Verb
[edit]histogram (third-person singular simple present histograms, present participle histogramming, simple past and past participle histogrammed)
- (transitive) To represent (data) as a histogram.
Czech
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[edit]histogram m inan
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Swedish
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[edit]histogram n
Declension
[edit]Declension of histogram
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