Constant plots draw lines parallel to the x-axis to connect coordinates. The discontinuous edges may be drawn or not, and marks may be placed on left or right ends.
The code is from the PGFPlots 1.10 manual: “4.5.3 Constant Plots”.
Edit and compile if you like:\documentclass[border=10pt]{standalone} \usepackage{pgfplots} \pgfplotsset{width=7cm,compat=1.8} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} \begin{axis} \addplot+[const plot] coordinates {(0,0.1) (0.1,0.15) (0.2,0.5) (0.3,0.62) (0.4,0.56) (0.5,0.58) (0.6,0.65) (0.7,0.6) (0.8,0.58) (0.9,0.55) (1,0.52)}; \end{axis} \end{tikzpicture} \end{document}