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Developing Consistency in the Terminology and Display of Bar Graphs and Histograms
Author(s) -
Humphrey Patricia B.,
Taylor Sharon,
Mittag Kathleen Cage
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/test.12030
Subject(s) - bar chart , terminology , consistency (knowledge bases) , computer science , pie chart , histogram , mathematics , artificial intelligence , natural language processing , statistics , information retrieval , linguistics , philosophy , image (mathematics)
Summary Students often are confused about the differences between bar graphs and histograms. The authors discuss some reasons behind this confusion and offer suggestions that help clarify thinking.