Pareto chart

[Ayushi Choudhary]

Can bars in Pareto chart only be in descending order and not in ascending order?

[Nitin Kumar Jha]

Hi,

Bars in pareto charts are always arranged only in descending order of their frequencies.

Regards

Nitin Kumar Jha

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On Sat, 10 Oct 2020, 12:40 pm Ayushi Choudhary <ayushicho...@gmail.com wrote:

Can bars in Pareto chart only be in descending order and not in ascending order?

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[Ayushi Choudhary]

But Usha mam, in the lecture, said that we can have bars in both ascending and descending order based on what we want to conveey from the data and what our interest is.

[Shrijal Patel]

Same doubt. 

[Nitin Kumar Jha]

If you are arranging the values in descending order then again it will give you the same information as it will give you on arranging in ascending order. So, in general, to maintain uniformity, it is advised to arrange values(observations) in increasing order of their frequencies in the Pareto chart.

Regards

Nitin Kumar Jha

[Shrijal Patel]

Thank you for the clarification  :)

[Anand Iyer]

We need to have a final verdict on this one because there's a question in one of the activities (Activity2, Q6) that pivots exactly on this point.  The given answer is graph2, but as per your answer, it could be either graph1 or graph2.

[Nitin Kumar Jha]

There should not be any ambiguity about it. Pareto chart will always have first bar of highest frequency. I just mentioned that on arranging in descending order, it will give same information so we stick to ascending order only to maintain uniformity.

[Anand Iyer]

SO, it's always in descending order.  In that case, there's no ambiguity.  Thanks for clarifying