Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A graph showing data for two or more variables as coordinates in a Cartesian system of two or more axes, often appearing as scattered or clustered dots.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
scatter plot .
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Examples
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This is apparent by how the points on the scatterplot tend to fall above the diagonal line.
Michael P. McDonald: Iowa Democrats Returning Mail Ballots at Higher Rates than Republicans Michael P. McDonald 2010
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This is apparent by how the points on the scatterplot tend to fall above the diagonal line.
Michael P. McDonald: Iowa Democrats Returning Mail Ballots at Higher Rates than Republicans Michael P. McDonald 2010
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This is apparent by how the points on the scatterplot tend to fall above the diagonal line.
Michael P. McDonald: Iowa Democrats Returning Mail Ballots at Higher Rates than Republicans Michael P. McDonald 2010
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Not only that, but looking at a scatterplot of the number of short fiction sales and the year of the first novel sale, this appears to be busted going back at least 30 years.
Novel Survey Results, Part I jimhines 2010
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I compared this with the IMF's data on economic growth in these countries from 2009 to 2010, when the stimulus packages took effect; here's how the scatterplot ended up:
Research Desk responds: How do stimulus size and economic growth compare internationally? 2010
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I'm guessing it will be another 5 to produce the scatterplot with confidence intervals that has led me to R in the first place.
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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I'm guessing it will be another 5 to produce the scatterplot with confidence intervals that has led me to R in the first place.
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Nick looks like your scatterplot can be found on p. 550 here:
Rabett Run EliRabett 2009
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Even if you're just adding the trend as a smoother (and a moving average would almost always be a better way to smooth time series data, while a lowess would be the more normal way to smooth a scatterplot), selecting one by the r-squared criterion (or any other residual variance criterion) wouldn't necessarily make sense.
Over-qualified?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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"I never thought," she wrote, "that masses of people might be psychologically tempted to trace back a reverse trajectory around the random scatterplot of their lives 'and culture's perceived personal and cultural losses, recasting the meaning of their lives within the collective narrative of the' global fight against Jihadism (sic) since 1979. '"
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