noun
histogram
a bar chart representing a frequency distribution; heights of the bars represent observed frequencies
In a sentence
Six example sentences with histogram, each labelled with its topic.
The team plotted every measured wing length as a histogram, and two separate humps suggested they had sampled two populations.
Science
A histogram of the season's shot distances showed a deep trough between eight and twenty feet, exactly where nobody shoots now.
Basketball
The camera's histogram was piled against the right edge, so the highlights had blown out before anyone looked at the screen.
Photography
A histogram of daily returns showed fat tails, with far more extreme days than the textbook bell curve predicted.
Finance
The histogram of household incomes has a long right tail, which is why the average sits well above the median.
Economics
The profiler draws a histogram of response times, and one bar far to the right exposed the slow database query.
Technology
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