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Listed under:  Mathematics  >  Statistics and probability  >  Data analysis  >  Bivariate data
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Scatter plots

  • TLF-IDL5857

Find out what a scatter plot is and how it can be used to investigate relationships between two variables. Analyse data for a pair of variables such as hand span and foot length. Enter your personal data and plot it with other data on a graph. Use a line of best fit to identify if there is a positive or negative relationship ...

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Scatter plots: about scatter plots

  • TLF-IDL5858

Find out what a scatter plot is and how it can be used to investigate relationships between two variables. Examine data for a pair of variables such as a person's height at the age of 2 and their height at the age of 22. Look at the data plotted on a graph. Notice how a line of best fit is used to identify if there is a ...

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Scatter plots: height and bellybutton height

  • TLF-IDL5859

Find out what a scatter plot is and how it can be used to investigate relationships between two variables. Analyse data for a pair of variables: a person's height and the height of their bellybutton measured from the floor. Enter your personal data and plot it with other data on a graph. Use a line of best fit to identify ...

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Scatter plots: age and reaction time

  • TLF-IDL5860

Find out what a scatter plot is and how it can be used to investigate relationships between two variables. Analyse data for a pair of variables: a person's age and the time it takes them to react to a signal. Enter your personal data and plot it with other data on a graph. Use a line of best fit to identify if there is ...

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Scatter plots: foot length and hand span

  • TLF-IDL5861

Find out what a scatter plot is and how it can be used to investigate relationships between two variables. Analyse data for a pair of variables: hand span and foot length. Enter your personal data and plot it with other data on a graph. Use a line of best fit to identify if there is a positive or negative relationship between ...

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Scatter plots: create your own data

  • TLF-IDL5862

Find out what a scatter plot is and how it can be used to investigate relationships between two variables. Gather and analyse data for a pair of variables such as hand span and foot length. Enter your data set and plot it on a graph. Use a line of best fit to identify if there is a positive or negative relationship between ...

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Graph investigator

  • TLF-IDL5903

Explore different graph types such as scatter plots, line graphs and histograms. Choose questions to investigate. For example, do girls have faster reaction times than boys? Select the appropriate data set. Then choose a useful graph type. Examine the data presented in the chosen graph type and draw a conclusion about the ...

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Graph investigator: types of graphs

  • TLF-IDL5904

This learning object shows a variety of graphs used in data handling and explains their features, their different uses and their advantages. Graph types include stem-and-leaf plots, histogram, box-and-whisker, scatter plot, pie graph, line graph and column graph. This learning object is one in a series of seven objects. ...

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Scatter plots: height and bellybutton height [ESL]

  • TLF-IDL9915

Find out what a scatter plot is and how it can be used to investigate relationships between two variables. Analyse data for a pair of variables: a person's height and the height of their bellybutton measured from the floor. Enter your personal data and plot it with other data on a graph. Use a line of best fit to identify ...

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Scatter plots: age and reaction time [ESL]

  • TLF-IDL9916

Find out what a scatter plot is and how it can be used to investigate relationships between two variables. Analyse data for a pair of variables: a person's age and the time it takes them to react to a signal. Enter your personal data and plot it with other data on a graph. Use a line of best fit to identify if there is ...

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Scatter plots: foot length and hand span [ESL]

  • TLF-IDL9917

Find out what a scatter plot is and how it can be used to investigate relationships between two variables. Analyse data for a pair of variables: hand span and foot length. Enter your personal data and plot it with other data on a graph. Use a line of best fit to identify if there is a positive or negative relationship between ...

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Scatter plots: create your own data [ESL]

  • TLF-IDL9918

Find out what a scatter plot is and how it can be used to investigate relationships between two variables. Gather and analyse data for a pair of variables such as hand span and foot length. Enter your data set and plot it on a graph. Use a line of best fit to identify if there is a positive or negative relationship between ...

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Analysing data using scatter plots

  • TLF-IDR12066

This is a collection of 18 digital curriculum resources that focus on how scatter plots are drawn and used to analyse the relationship between two continuous variables. The collection is organised into five sections: what this type of graph is used for; looking more closely at scatter plots; using scatter plots to describe ...

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Are airport taxi fares fair across Australian cities?

  • TLF-IDR12202

This conference paper describes the use of an open-ended mathematical investigation into the relationship between the cost of taxi fares to airports in a number of cities and the distance travelled. The investigation required groups of students to research suitable data, and then use scatterplots and linear regression to ...

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Sustainable agriculture: agri-environmental indicators

  • TLF-IDM014095

This is a web resource that provides a database of agri-environmental indicators for environmental performance of agriculture in OECD countries between 1990 and 2008. The data table can be customised, with options to view by country or by theme: land, energy, air, nutrients, soil, biodiversity, pesticides, water, farm management ...

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International migration database

  • TLF-IDM014097

This is a web resource consisting of a database showing the movement of the ‘migrant’ population, generally the foreign-born population, to and from each of the OECD countries. Data tables can be customised with options to view by country of origin of the migrants, or by the variable to be displayed, for example, asylum ...

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Green growth indicators

  • TLF-IDM014099

This is a web resource consisting of a database of selected indicators for monitoring progress towards green growth in OECD countries, including Australia, and BRIICS economies - Brazil, Russian Federation, India, Indonesia, China and South Africa - from 1990 to 2012. The indicators are based on environmental and resource ...

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Emissions of air pollutants (thousand tonnes)

  • TLF-IDM014100

This is a web resource consisting of a database of selected information on human-made emissions of traditional air pollutants - sulphur oxides, nitrogen oxides, particulate matter, carbon monoxide and volatile organic compounds - in OECD countries, including Australia, between 1990 and 2012. The data table can be customised, ...

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Teacher resource

Determining the probability of a good day for sowing cotton

  • TLF-IDM021282

This activity is a series of three related tasks that support the use of spreadsheets (Excel), Venn diagrams and two-way tables to develop an understanding of conditional probability when used to determine the probability of a farmer being able to sow a cotton crop. The activity is, based on real historical soil and air ...

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