The frequency polygon reconsidered.
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| Publication date | 1997 |
| Journal | Computational Statistics and Data Analysis |
| Volume | Issue number | 24 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1-8 |
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| Abstract | The frequency polygon is not compatible with the given frequency distribution in the sense that the areas within the classes are not proportional to the frequencies. As a consequence, the polygon is too flat. Therefore, an alternative polygon is constructed as a continuous version of the histogram by area-matching within each class. The result is a useful tool for visualizing frequency distributions, which is continuous, compatible with the frequencies and easy to understand. |
| Document type | Article |
| Published at | https://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-9473(96)00053-9 |
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