Psychology A-Level
Histograms
What Histograms means in Psychology A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Histograms
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Reference: AQA
Display continuous data, so the bars touch, the horizontal axis is divided into equal intervals and no interval is skipped.
Topics that use Histograms
- Data handling and analysis (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- anomalous scores
- bar charts
- Causation
- central tendency
- co-variables
- Coding
- Collection techniques
- interval data
Using Histograms in the exam
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