Scatter Plot, Unit 4 Vocabulary Words

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Data

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Are pieces of information collected by asking questions, measuring, or making observations about the real world.

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Bivariate Data

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Data from two different variables

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Scatter Plot

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a graph that uses points to display relationship between two different sets of data. Each point can be represented by an ordered pair

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Positive Association (correlation)

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There is a positive correlation between the data points. When the X value increases (goes up) the y value increases (goes up)

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Negative Association (Correlation)

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Negative association between two sets of data when x values increases (goes Up)

the y-value decreases (goes down)

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No Correlation

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where the points are scattered randomly across the graph, indicating no discernible relationship or pattern between the two variables being plotted,

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outlier (circled in blue in picture)

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is a piece of data that does not seem to fit the rest of the data set. A data or few pieces of data that are far away from the other points.

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Gap

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an area of graph the contains no points

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Cluster (circled in Red in picture)

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group of data points that appear closely grouped together,

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Trend Line

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a line on a scatter plot that is drawn near the points that approximates the association between the data sets.