Histogram

Question 1

What is the difference between a bar chart and a histogram?

Answer 1

Histograms use continuous data whereas bar charts use categorical data and there are no spaces between the bars in a histogram

Question 2

What is placed along the x and y axis?

Answer 2

The continuous scores are placed along the x axis while the frequency of these scores are shown in the y axis

Question 3

What do you need to remember about the bar in a histogram?

Answer 3

The column width for each value on the x axis should be the same width per equal category interval