Question

Regression analysis involves lurking variables, outliers, scatterplots, linear correlation coefficient, and regression equation. Answer the following questions for your main post:

• What types of data can be used to generate different kinds of graphs?

Answer 1

Graph	Type of data
Bar Graph	Discrete Variable, Ordinal data, Categorical Data:Categories on the x axis and numbers on the y axis. The height of the bar shows the frequency.
Pie Chart	Categorical Variable. Shows how the whole break down into parts
Pictograph	Categorical data: Pictures to represent a particular number of items
Line graph	Continuous data: Shows dependent data with trends over time
Histogram	Continuous Variables. Shows Frequency Distributions. Shows data using bars of different heights
Scatter Plot	Two continuous variables. Graph of plotted points that show the relationship between two sets of data.
Box and Whisker plot	Continuous variable. Shows Minimum, First Quartile, Median, Third quartile and Maximum