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Unit: Scatterplots

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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!

Quiz 1

Level up on the above skills and collect up to 500 Mastery points

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!

Quiz 2

Level up on the above skills and collect up to 400 Mastery points
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Unit test

Level up on all the skills in this unit and collect up to 900 Mastery points!

About this unit

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