pareto.chart {qcc}R Documentation

Pareto chart

Description

Plot a Pareto chart.

Usage

pareto.chart(x, ylab = "Frequency", xlab, ylim, main, 
             col = heat.colors(length(x)), ...)

Arguments

x a vector of values. names(x) are used for labelling the bars.
ylab a string specifying the label for the y-axis.
xlab a string specifying the label for the x-axis.
ylim a numeric vector specifying the limits for the y-axis.
main a string specifying the main title to appear on the plot.
col a value for the color, a vector of colors, or a palette for the bars. See the help for colors and palette.
... other graphical arguments to be passed to the barplot function.

Details

A Pareto chart is a barplot where the categories are ordered in non increasing order, and a line is also added to show the cumulative sum.

Value

Returns a matrix containing the descriptive statistics used to draw the Pareto chart.

Author(s)

Luca Scrucca luca@stat.unipg.it

References

Montgomery, D.C. (2000) Introduction to Statistical Quality Control, 4th ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons.

See Also

barplot

Examples

defect <- c(80, 27, 66, 94, 33)
names(defect) <- c("price code", "schedule date", "supplier code", "contact num.", "part num.")
pareto.chart(defect, ylab = "Error frequency")
pareto.chart(defect, ylab = "Error frequency", xlab = "Error causes", las=1)
pareto.chart(defect, ylab = "Error frequency", col=rainbow(length(defect)))
[Package qcc version 2.0 Index]