1999, Theus and Lauer, 1999) and a wide variety of computational realizations, listed next.

The history of statistical graphics has deep roots , of which this paper charts a slender tendril.
This account of mosaic displays shows that this graphic form arose in Halley’s diagram to depict the joint
probabilities of mortality under independence, and was later used in other contexts to show the product
of two quantities represented by height and width of rectangles. These graphic developments for
categorical data, traditionally the poor cousin of quantitative graphics, raise interesting questions for
future research, e.g., scatterplot matrices for mixtures of categorical and quantitative variables, and
marginal vs.

of varying heights, we now also have variable bar widths.

The vertical axis of the graph displays a percentage scale while the horizontal axis is normalized
to occupy the entire width of the diagram without leaving any blank space between the bars.

A classic example of mosaic plots uses data from the passengers on the Titanic; the data used
for this example has 3 variables. The variables are: the gender of the person the class did this person
survive the sinking? The observations were compiled into the following table: The categorical variables
are first

data vertically in two blocks: the bottom blocks corresponds to females, while the upper one to
males. One sees that a quarter of the passengers were female and the remaining three quarters male.
One applies the second variable "Class" to the top edge; the four vertical columns therefore mark the
four values of that variable. These columns are of variable thickness, because column width indicates
the relative proportion of the corresponding value on the population. Crew plainly represents the
largest male

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