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Alg1B Unit 7
Analyzing Bivariate Data
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Scale | The range of values and the increments used for the axis of a graph. |
Origin | The point at which the axes of the graph intersect. |
Scatter plot | A graphical representation of two quantitative variables through plotted points. |
Quantitative variable | A quantity that has measurable, numeric values or counts. |
Direction | The positive or negative relationship between two variables. |
Form | The linear or non-linear relationship between two variables, also called the trend. |
Strength | An assessment of the degree of a relationship that can be determined by how closely points follow the form. |
Outlier | A data point that differs significantly from other observations. |
Explanatory variable | A type of independent variable that helps explain the changes to the response variable. |
Response variable | A type of dependent variable that is the outcome of the explanatory variable and is the quantity of interest. |
Quadratic relationship | A relationship between two variables that represents a quadratic equation. |
Exponential relationship | A relationship between two variables where one of the variables is an exponent. |
Line of best fit | A straight line that best represents the data in a scatter plot. |
Linear extrapolation | used to predict values inside the range of the data |
Linear interpolation | used to predict values outside the range of the data |
Residual | The difference between an observed y-value and its predicted y-value found on the best-fit line. |
Residual plot | A scatter plot with residuals on the vertical axis and the independent variable on the horizontal axis. |
Correlation coefficient | A measure of the direction and the strength of a linear relationship, represented with the variable r. |
Causation | the relationship between two variables where one variable is affected by the occurrence of the other variable |