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Learning Targets
Learning Targets
Interpret the correlation.
Understand the basic properties of correlation, including how the correlation is influenced by outliers.
Distinguish correlation from causation.
Class Activities
Class Activities
Describing Scatterplots
Describing Scatterplots
Practice
Practice
Browse through sample data here and find a data set (or sets) with quantitative data that interests you.
Create three scatterplots using the technology of your choice. The three scatterplots can all be from the same dataset, or be from different ones.
Fit a line to your scatterplots.
Copy and paste your scatterplots into the appropriate presentation. Identify the variables, and discuss the four elements: Shape, Strength, Direction, and other Weird Things that you see in your graph.
Identify the slope and the y-intercept.
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