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Thursday, August 7, 2008

Scatter Plots


Scatter plots are similar to line graphs in that they use horizontal and vertical axes to plot data points. However, they have a very specific purpose. Scatter plots show how much one variable is affected by another, in other words it shows their correlation. This particular scatter plot is of spousal abuse and how it is correlated with the age of the people involved.
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