How to Use histogram in a Sentence

histogram

noun
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  • The monthly histogram reveals that July and August have been the two strongest months to hold the stock over the last 44 years.
    — Bill Sarubbi, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • The shape of the histogram of engagement ring cost, is not normal.
    — New York Times, 6 Feb. 2020
  • The histogram below shows that this stock is also in its bullish time span.
    — Bill Sarubbi, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The monthly histogram reveals that June has been the second weakest month of the year.
    — Bill Sarubbi, Forbes, 6 June 2022
  • The monthly histogram below shows that July and August have been the two strongest months for the note price.
    — Bill Sarubbi, Forbes, 3 July 2022
  • The histogram below illustrates this with the above data set.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 30 Dec. 2011
  • The quantitative variable displayed in the histogram is the cost of engagement rings.
    — New York Times, 6 Feb. 2020
  • The histogram below reveals that this group is entering its most bullish season.
    — Bill Sarubbi, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
  • On a technical level, the software is looking at how the log-chrominance histogram of each photo shifts with varying tints.
    — Vlad Savov, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2018
  • This switch from bear to bull can be partially explained by this monthly histogram of expected return of share price from 1980.
    — Bill Sarubbi, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
  • Examination of the daily histogram for September reveals that most of the damage occurs from the 18th through the 22nd.
    — Bill Sarubbi, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
  • This is illustrated best by seeing our electoral distributions side by side: The FiveThirtyEight histogram is wider and flatter than ours.
    — Josh Katz, New York Times, 19 July 2016
  • The histogram summarizes the distribution of a data set composed of 50 integers.
    — Andrew Daniels, Popular Mechanics, 6 Aug. 2019
  • The histogram at the top shows the distribution of the U-Pb ages that represent magmatic activity while the histogram on the right are Helium ages that represent periods of erosion.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Here is histogram of the angular accelerations of different spins.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 11 Jan. 2012
  • Presenting data in a histogram induces comparisons to familiar reference shapes, like the symmetric bell curve that arises in many applications of statistics.
    — Andrew Gelman, Wired, 25 Aug. 2020

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