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Scatterplots

Creating and interpreting scatterplots

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Constructing a scatter plot
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Example of direction in scatterplots
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Example: Correlation coefficient intuition
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Correlation and causality
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Positive and negative associations in scatterplots
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Practice
Constructing scatter plotsGet 3 of 4 questions to level up!
Making appropriate scatter plotsGet 3 of 4 questions to level up!
Positive and negative linear associations from scatter plotsGet 3 of 4 questions to level up!
Describing trends in scatter plotsGet 3 of 4 questions to level up!
Correlation coefficient intuitionGet 3 of 4 questions to level up!

Estimating with trend lines

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Estimating the line of best fit exercise
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Line of best fit: smoking in 1945
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Interpreting a trend line
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Equations of trend lines: Phone data
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Practice
Eyeballing the line of best fitGet 3 of 4 questions to level up!
Estimating slope of line of best fitGet 3 of 4 questions to level up!
Estimating equations of lines of best fit, and using them to make predictionsGet 3 of 4 questions to level up!
Interpreting slope and y-intercept for linear modelsGet 3 of 4 questions to level up!

About this unit

Scatterplots show us relationships and patterns in data, and we use those patterns to make predictions.