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Objective

The objective of this tutorial is to explain how bivariate analysis works.This analysis can be used by marketers to make decisions about their pricing strategies, advertising strategies, and promotion stratgies among others.

Bivariate analysis is one of the simplest forms of statistical analysis. It is generally used to find out if there is a relationship between two sets of values (or two variables). That said, it usually involves the variables X and Y (statisticshowto.com).

Dataset - We will be using two online datasets available in R for this tutorial

plot(y3 ~ x2, data = anscombe, pch = 16)
abline(lm(y3 ~ x3, anscombe), col = "grey20")

Question 1:is there a relationship between x and y? If so, what does the relationship look like?

Your answer here: “Yes, there is a positive relationship between x2 and y3 because the values generally increase together, although the point near y3 = 12.7 is an outlier above the overall trend.”

library(readr)
library(readr)
ad_sales <- read_csv('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/utjimmyx/regression/master/advertising.csv')
## New names:
## Rows: 200 Columns: 6
## ── Column specification
## ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Delimiter: "," dbl
## (6): ...1, X1, TV, radio, newspaper, sales
## ℹ Use `spec()` to retrieve the full column specification for this data. ℹ
## Specify the column types or set `show_col_types = FALSE` to quiet this message.
## • `` -> `...1`
plot(sales ~ TV, data = ad_sales)

Question 2:Is there a relationship between TV advertising and Sales? If so, what does the relationship look like?

Your answer here: “Yes, there is a strong positive relationship between TV advertising and sales because sales generally increase as companies spend more money on TV advertising.”

Question 3:Can you plot the relationship between radio advertising and Sales? If so, what does the relationship look like?

Your answer here: “Using plot(sales ~ radio, data = ad_sales) creates a graph showing a positive relationship between radio advertising and sales, although the points are more spread out than they are for TV advertising.”

Question 4: Explain one of the functions you learned in your own words.

Your answer here: “The plot() function creates a graph that helps me visually compare two variables, identify whether they have a relationship, recognize patterns, and notice unusual points or outliers in the data.”

References

Bivariate Analysis Definition & Example https://www.statisticshowto.com/bivariate-analysis/#:~:text=Bivariate%20analysis%20means%20the%20analysis,the%20variables%20X%20and%20Y.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/mathematics/bivariate-data