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The Effect of Groups: BEFORE You Add Any Lines or Curves To The Scatter Plot Make A Visual Interpretation... in Context

The document provides guidance on describing key features of scatter plots, including trend, association, strength, groups, unusual values, and scatter. It emphasizes describing these features in context and discussing what they indicate about the relationship between the variables. Scatter plots of example data on temperature, internet use, GDP, and average marriage age are presented to demonstrate discussion of these descriptive elements.

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The Effect of Groups: BEFORE You Add Any Lines or Curves To The Scatter Plot Make A Visual Interpretation... in Context

The document provides guidance on describing key features of scatter plots, including trend, association, strength, groups, unusual values, and scatter. It emphasizes describing these features in context and discussing what they indicate about the relationship between the variables. Scatter plots of example data on temperature, internet use, GDP, and average marriage age are presented to demonstrate discussion of these descriptive elements.

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. The Effect of Groups .

What is a scatter plot?

When investigating bivariate data making a scatter plot is the


first step.

BEFORE you add any lines or curves to the scatter plot make a visual
interpretation...in context

Is the association linear looking or not?

“There looks to be a linear association between .... and .... (or not)

If there looks like a linear association then you con preceded with applying a
linear model.

(If there is no obvious association you should reconsider your variables) Duh
. Scatterplots: Introduction .

What can we describe from a of scatter plot?

Describe the Trend. (Linear or non-Linear)


Describe the Association. (Positive or Negative)
Describe the Strength. (Weak, Moderate, Strong)
Describe the Groups or clusters (possible reasons or causes)
Describe the Unusual Values (any worth noting)
Describe the Scatter (Even or changing)

If the scatter plot indicates a linear model is appropriate then we can proceed.

Discuss what you see in your scatter plots


"from the scatter plot it appears that as (blah) increases then (blah) tends to
increase also. Am I surprised by this? Why am I surprised or not by this (in
context)

"I would expect that measurements of (blah) and (blah) are in proportion"

Booklet p2 (describe scatter plot & variable types, and research Q. Pg3,
4, 5

Investigate the effect of other variables or groups


. Scatter plots Features .

What do you DISCUSS in CONTEXT

Trend
Do you see: a linear trend… or a non-linear trend?
“This means...

Association
Do you see: a positive association… or a negative association?
as one variable gets as one variable gets
bigger, so does the bigger, the other gets
other smaller
“This means that...

Strength
Do you see: a strong relationship… or a weak relationship?
little scatter lots of scatter
“This means that...
. Scatter plots (Cont) .

Groups
Do you see any groupings?
“I notice that... This could be due to...

Unusual Values
Do you see any unusual values?
Is the outlier an error or just different?
Do NOT remove unusual values unless they are errors
Could there be a reason for the unusual values?
“I notice that... Maybe this is...

Scatter
Do you see: constant scatter… or non-constant scatter?
roughly the same amount the scatter looks
of scatter as you look like a “fan” or
across the plot “funnel”

Other Features? “I notice that... This could be due to...


Context... Context... Context...
What do I see in these scatter plots?
Mean January Air Temperatures
% of population who are Internet Users vs
for 30 New Zealand Locations
GDP per capita for 202 Countries Average Age New Zealanders are First Married
20
80 30
19
Temperature (°C)

70

Internet Users (%)


28
18 60
50 26
17
40

Age
16 30 24

15 20 22
14 10
0 20
35 40 45
0 10 20 30 40 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990
Latitude (°S)
GDP per capita (thousands of dollars) Year

Trend “I notice that...


Association This could be due to...
Strength Maybe this is...
Groups This could be due to...
Unusual Values This means that...
Scatter When the....
Other Features? For values of.... between...

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