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Infographic based on Charles Minard's graph depicting Napoleon's 1812 Russian campaign, showing the dwindling size of his army as thick colored bands for advance and retreat routes, overlaid on a map with cities and rivers, and a temperature chart below marking extreme cold during the retreat.
A coxcomb or polar area chart displays causes of mortality in the British army from April 1854 to March 1855, with each wedge representing a month. Green sections show nonbattle deaths, while yellow sections show battle deaths, illustrating that most deaths were from nonbattle causes.
Least squares approximation graph
normal approximation to the binomial distribution
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Histogram chart
normal probability distribution
Figure 1: Probability of equally likely possible outcomes.
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