Histogram
What Histogram means in Mathematics GCSE, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
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Represents grouped continuous data with bars whose area is proportional to frequency, so frequency density equals frequency divided by class width.
A diagram showing frequency by area, not height, used to see the shape of a distribution and drawn with bars that touch.
Topics that use Histogram
- Statistics (AQA GCSE)
- Statistics (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- box plot
- Continuous Data
- Cumulative frequency graph
- Extrapolation
- Frequency density
- Outlier
- scatter graphs
- bias
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