Difference between revisions of "Pie chart"

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[[Image:Credit_score_chart.png|right|300px|thumb|Typical pie chart]]
 
[[Image:Credit_score_chart.png|right|300px|thumb|Typical pie chart]]
A '''pie chart''' is a kind of [[circular]] [[chart]] designed to communicate [[statistics]] to the [[public]].
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A '''[[pie]] chart''' is a [[circular]] [[statistics|statistical]] [[chart]] where shaded or colored [[sector]]s of a [[circle]] (pie slices) are [[angle|angularly]] scaled to represent relative fractions of the whole.  
  
 
[[Category:Statistics]]
 
[[Category:Statistics]]

Revision as of 18:15, October 12, 2008

Typical pie chart

A pie chart is a circular statistical chart where shaded or colored sectors of a circle (pie slices) are angularly scaled to represent relative fractions of the whole.