Practice 14 How to create a scatterplot in R

14.1 Directions

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In this practice exercise, you will conduct t-test for matched or paired samples in R.

14.2 A closer look at the code

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We will use Anscombe’s Quartet to practice making scater plots using the plot() command. Anscombe’s Quartet is a data set that was constructed in 1973 by the statistician Francis Anscombe to demonstrate the importance of graphing data before analyzing.

data("anscombe")
attach(anscombe)
head(anscombe)

##   x1 x2 x3 x4   y1   y2    y3   y4
## 1 10 10 10  8 8.04 9.14  7.46 6.58
## 2  8  8  8  8 6.95 8.14  6.77 5.76
## 3 13 13 13  8 7.58 8.74 12.74 7.71
## 4  9  9  9  8 8.81 8.77  7.11 8.84
## 5 11 11 11  8 8.33 9.26  7.81 8.47
## 6 14 14 14  8 9.96 8.10  8.84 7.04

plot(x=x1,y=y1)

Here is a plot of all four pairs of data. What is cool about this is that the best fit line through each plot is identical.

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Here is a short video on this very special data set.

14.3 Now you try

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Use R to complete the following activities (this is just for practice you do not need to turn anything in).

Use the mtcars data set to plot mpg vs hp.