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ogive
Author: Marian Olejar, Jr. Created: Sep/24/2006 Last edit: Sep/24/2006

    Other names: distribution curve.
    statistics:
    The ogive is the graph of cumulative frequency, where classes are measured along the horizontal axis and cumulative frequency along the vertical axis.
    
    For example:
    10 students received following grades from last test: 1, 2, 4, 1, 5, 2, 5, 3, 1, 5. This can be represented by this ogive:
    
    

See also:
histogram, frequency polygon,

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