Analyzing Bivariate Data
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| Scale | The range of values and the increments used for the axis of a graph.
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| Origin | The point at which the axes of the graph intersect.
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| Scatter plot | A graphical representation of two quantitative variables through plotted points.
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| Quantitative variable | A quantity that has measurable, numeric values or counts.
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| Direction | The positive or negative relationship between two variables.
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| Form | The linear or non-linear relationship between two variables, also called the trend.
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| Strength | An assessment of the degree of a relationship that can be determined by how closely points follow the form.
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| Outlier | A data point that differs significantly from other observations.
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| Explanatory variable | A type of independent variable that helps explain the changes to the response variable.
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| Response variable | A type of dependent variable that is the outcome of the explanatory variable and is the quantity of interest.
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| Quadratic relationship | A relationship between two variables that represents a quadratic equation.
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| Exponential relationship | A relationship between two variables where one of the variables is an exponent.
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| Line of best fit | A straight line that best represents the data in a scatter plot.
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| Linear extrapolation | used to predict values inside the range of the data
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| Linear interpolation | used to predict values outside the range of the data
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| Residual | The difference between an observed y-value and its predicted y-value found on the best-fit line.
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| Residual plot | A scatter plot with residuals on the vertical axis and the independent variable on the horizontal axis.
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| Correlation coefficient | A measure of the direction and the strength of a linear relationship, represented with the variable r.
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| Causation | the relationship between two variables where one variable is affected by the occurrence of the other variable
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