"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." - Unknown As promised last time , I will be covering Anscombe's Quartet. It is an idea where people may use statistics to lie about a data set. It is a series of data sets developed by statistician Francis Anscombe and published in the journal American Statistician in 1973. I'm going to provide you with four sets of data. Do me a favor and apply what you know of statistical analysis to them. If the statistical data look weird to you, don't be scared; you may have done the analysis perfectly. Here's the four sets: I II III IV x y x y x y x y 10 8.04 10 9.14 10 7.46 8 6.58 8 6.95 8 8.14 8 6.77 8 5.76 13 7.58 13 8.74 13 12.74 8 7.71 9 8.81 9 8.77 9 7.11 8 8.84 11 8.33 11 9.26 11 7.81 ...
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