Despite the chant that correlation is not causation, some researchers believe the design of scatter plots nudges us to the wrong conclusions. Can a change in their design lessen that risk? Analyzing ...

A scatter plot is a graphic representation of the relationship between two variables. You can identify and label observations in the scatter plot, control the orientation of the plot, and control the ...

Before I started playing Guess the Correlation, I didn’t expect to spend an hour of my Easter weekend obsessing over an 8-bit video game, much less one based on something that many scientists do every ...

If you understand the definition of a mathematical function, a good way to judge it is that any line drawn parallel to the y-axis intersects with the values in the function’s curve only once. The same ...

The lower half of the scatter plot matrix for the six variables appears on your display with the 80% prediction confidence ellipses drawn, as shown in Figure 18.7. Figure 18.7: Multivariate Window ...