histogram
noun
his·to·gram
ˈhi-stə-ˌgram 
: a representation of a frequency distribution by means of rectangles whose widths represent class intervals and whose areas are proportional to the corresponding frequencies
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The histogram has a line in the middle, with everything on the right being in the HDR region.
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PCMAG, 12 Nov. 2024
The Age That Women Have Babies: How a Gap Divides America
Four decades of data — depicted in maps and a histogram — showed that children could have diverging economic futures depending on the age when their mothers gave birth.
Sept. 2018
51.
—The Upshot Staff, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2024
Long-term momentum is positive and expanding per the monthly MACD and histogram as silver pushes to its highest level since 2013.
—Katie Stockton, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2024
The monthly stochastic oscillator has since fallen below 80%, a long-term overbought indication, and the monthly MACD histogram has downticked.
—Katie Stockton, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2024
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PCMAG, 12 Nov. 2024
The Age That Women Have Babies: How a Gap Divides America
Four decades of data — depicted in maps and a histogram — showed that children could have diverging economic futures depending on the age when their mothers gave birth.
Sept. 2018
51.
—The Upshot Staff, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2024
Long-term momentum is positive and expanding per the monthly MACD and histogram as silver pushes to its highest level since 2013.
—Katie Stockton, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2024
The monthly stochastic oscillator has since fallen below 80%, a long-term overbought indication, and the monthly MACD histogram has downticked.
—Katie Stockton, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2024
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histogram
noun
his·to·gram
ˈhis-tə-ˌgram
: a bar graph that uses rectangles of different heights to show how often the different values of a variable in statistics occur
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histogram
noun
his·to·gram
ˈhis-tə-ˌgram
: a representation of a frequency distribution by means of rectangles whose widths represent class intervals and whose heights represent corresponding frequencies
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