Talk:Scatterplot
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Is it scatter plot or scatterplot?
I have seen it cited both ways in statistical literature, but scatterplot seems to appear more frequently:
"The scatterplot is one of our most powerful tools for data analysis." -- Cleveland, W. S., and McGill, R. (1984), "Many Faces of a Scatterplot," Journal of the American Statistical Association, [79], 388, 807-822.
"To identify potentially significant changes in expression, we used a scatter plot of the observed relative difference d(i) vs. the expected relative difference dE(i)." -- Tusher, V. G., Tibshirani, R., and Chu, G. (2001), "Significance analysis of microarrays applied to the ionizing radiation response,' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 98, 5116–5121.
What is the line aross the graph for? This is a line of best fit. I have edited the article to show this- Micropw
Have done further work,adding an explaination of correlation coefficient from another article. Feed back welcome Micropw 15:43, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
