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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?

The relationship is the points trend upward, though one point sits far from the rest.

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?

A strong correlation exists between TV advertising cost and sales. when TV advertising cost increases, sales increase in a linear fashion.

Question 3:Can you plot the relationship between radio advertising and Sales? If so, what does the relationship look like? There exists a positive association between radio advertisement and sales, but the correlation is less clear and weaker compared to that for television. Regardless of the amount allocated on radio advertisement, there exists significant variance in sales. From this, we can conclude that radio advertising influences sales although not as strongly as television.

plot(sales ~ radio, data = ad_sales)

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

One function I learned is plot(), which creates a simple scatterplot to visualize the relationship between two variables (here, an outcome like sales against a predictor like TV or radio spend).

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