Answer to Question #94144 in Statistics and Probability for Juliet Beglaryan

Question

Sometimes it is desirable to construct a bar graph in which the categories are presented in order of frequency or relative frequency. Such a graph is called a ____________ .

Answer 1

Answer: Pareto Chart

A bar graph in which the categories are presented in order of frequency or relative frequency, with the largest frequency or relative frequency on the left and the smallest one on the right.

Pareto charts are useful when it is important to see clearly which are the most frequently occurring categories.

More info and variatons: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_chart

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_distribution