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Pie Chart

Pie charts (the term first used by Haskell, 1922) are useful for representing proportions. Individual data values of the Xvariable are represented as the "wedges" of the pie.

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The sequence of values from the selected variable will be represented by consecutive slices of the pie (this term was first used by Haskell, 1922); the size of each slice will be proportional to the respective value. The values should be greater than 0 (0's and negative values cannot be represented as slices of the pie). This simple type of pie chart (sometimes called data pie chart) interprets data in the most straightforward manner: one case = one slice.

Source: Statistica