How to Use histogram in a Sentence

histogram

noun
  • The shape of the histogram of engagement ring cost, is not normal.
    New York Times, 6 Feb. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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