graphique
polygone des fréquences
Distribution tracée en ligne brisée reliant les sommets des classes.
frequency polygon
also: distribution line chartDistribution drawn as a line joining the tops of the bins.
Préférable à l'histogramme pour superposer plusieurs distributions.
Classification
- graphique
- courbes et aires › courbes statistiques
- distribution; Visual Vocabulary du Financial Times
Canaux
position sur une échelle commune; principal : effectif par classe
Variantes
ogivecumulé
Attestation
- terme français : Grand dictionnaire terminologique, OQLF (via l'EBSI, Montréal)
- définition anglaise : Desbarats, More Practical Charts, 2024
Littérature scientifique
OpenAlex : 329 articles depuis 1925, dont 18 % ces cinq dernières années; surtout en Mathematics, Social Sciences, Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Références séminales
- premier usage connu (1874) Walker (1874). Statistical Atlas of the United States Based on the Results of the Ninth Census; Friendly & Denis 2001
Paquets R
- R
ggplot2::geom_freqpoly(); GitHub 7 025 étoiles; dernier commit 2026-10; article (33 455 citations)
Code R de l'exemple ggplot2
library(ggplot2)
library(dplyr)
library(HistData)
children <- GaltonFamilies |>
mutate(child = factor(gender, levels = c("female", "male"), labels = c("Daughters", "Sons")))
## Each name goes above the peak of its polygon, in the same 1-inch bins.
peaks <- children |>
count(child, height = round(childHeight)) |>
group_by(child) |>
slice_max(n, n = 1, with_ties = FALSE)
p <- ggplot(children, aes(x = childHeight, colour = child)) +
geom_freqpoly(binwidth = 1, center = 0, linewidth = 0.7) +
geom_text(data = peaks, aes(x = height, y = n, label = child), vjust = -0.7, size = 3.5) +
scale_x_continuous(labels = lex_number, breaks = lex_break_breaks, expand = lex_break_expand) +
scale_y_continuous(labels = lex_number, expand = expansion(mult = c(0, 0.15))) +
labs(title = "Sons measured about 5 inches more than daughters",
subtitle = "Adult height of 934 children of 205 families, in 1-inch bins",
x = "Height (inches)", y = "Children",
caption = "Data: Galton 1886, via the HistData R package") +
theme_lex_viz(break_not_zero = "x") +
theme(legend.position = "none")Sources (15)
54 occurrences dans le corpus; indexé par 5 ouvrages
Afficher les 15 sources
- Cartography: thematic map design
- Data visualization: a practical introduction
- Desbarats, More Practical Charts, 2024
- Friendly & Wainer, A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication, Harvard University Press, 2021
- Grand dictionnaire terminologique, OQLF (via l'EBSI, Montréal)
- Graphiques : vocabulaire, EBSI Montréal (d'après le GDT)↗
- Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference
- LibreTexts Statistics, chapitres de manuels sur les figures
- Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visua...
- More Practical Charts
- Show me the numbers: designing tables and graphs to enlighten
- StatsLearn, glossaire « Graphs and displays »↗
- The grammar of graphics
- Wickham, Çetinkaya-Rundel & Grolemund, R for Data Science, 2e éd., 2023
- Wickham, Navarro & Pedersen, ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis, 3e éd. en ligne↗
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RéférenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. polygone des fréquences. Dans Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/terme/frequency-polygon.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-frequency-polygon,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {polygone des fréquences},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/terme/frequency-polygon.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Fiche créée le 13/10/2026. Texte modifié le 22/10/2026. Images modifiées le 12/11/2026. Chiffres calculés le 22/10/2026.