Scatter Plot of Multivariate Data
Definition 1
Given multivariate data, select two quantitative data, one for the horizontal axis (x-axis) and the other for the vertical axis (y-axis), and plot the points. This is referred to as a Scatter Plot.
Explanation
Below is the multivariate data recording the birth year and height of the girl group ‘WJSN’ members. Typically, scatter plots are drawn to check for any correlation between two variables.
In data science, the importance of scatter plots lies in their role in Exploratory Data Analysis before the formal analysis of any data, making them indispensable at that stage.
See Also
- Drawing scatter plots in R: In the R programming language, which is specialized for statistical analysis, the
plot()function inherently draws scatter plots.
Mendenhall. (2012). Introduction to Probability and Statistics (13th Edition): p102. ↩︎