# How is this chart called? Percentile chart?

Assume I have a chart below how a certain property is distributed (in this case number of cars over 0-100%) over a population:

• How is such a chart called? Percentile chart?
• What are the keywords to search for if I want to know more about such kind of charts?
• How are such charts typically drawn? Like a 'stair' in the example below?
• How do I write that the first 90% has 2 or less cars? E.g. "The lowest 90% percentile has 2 or less cars?"

• I'd call it empirical quantile function – Michael M Jul 22 '16 at 11:50
• Possible duplicate of Graph showing the percentage of observations above each value of a variable – llrs Jul 25 '16 at 7:25
• I wonder if the fact the axes are reversed means this is not an exact duplicate of the other thread. Certainly the answer to this thread would not quite be an answer to the proposed duplicate. – Silverfish Jul 25 '16 at 10:01

In most cases your plot is presented with flipped axes, where on $x$-axis we present some values and on $y$-axis their cumulated empirical probabilities (see example below). So such plot illustrates empirical cumulative distribution function and I think that in most cases people call it simply empirical cumulative distribution function plot.
If $X=\lbrace0,1,2,3\rbrace$ and $x\in X$, is typical ecdf plot proper for visualizing the data ? I feel It may be better to specify the intervals closed on the right to avoid misreading. Or may be we should draw the graph like a barplot !??? (I used waterfalls package in R)