Objectives

The objectives of this problem set is to orient you to a number of activities in R. And to conduct a thoughtful exercise in appreciating the importance of data visualization. For each question create a code chunk or text response that completes/answers the activity or question requested. Finally, upon completion name your final output .html file as: YourName_ANLY512-Section-Year-Semester.html and upload it to the “Problem Set 2” assignment to your R Pubs account and submit the link to Moodle. Points will be deducted for uploading the improper format.

Questions

  1. Anscombes quartet is a set of 4 \(x,y\) data sets that were published by Francis Anscombe in a 1973 paper Graphs in statistical analysis. For this first question load the anscombe data that is part of the library(datasets) in R. And assign that data to a new object called data.
#Place your code here and delete this!
library(datasets)
data=anscombe
  1. Summarise the data by calculating the mean, variance, for each column and the correlation between each pair (eg. x1 and y1, x2 and y2, etc) (Hint: use the fBasics() package!)
#Place your code here and delete this!

# install and load package
#install.packages("fBasics")
library(fBasics)
## Loading required package: timeDate
## Loading required package: timeSeries
#calculate means
colMeans(data)
##       x1       x2       x3       x4       y1       y2       y3       y4 
## 9.000000 9.000000 9.000000 9.000000 7.500909 7.500909 7.500000 7.500909
#calculate variance
colVars(data)
##        x1        x2        x3        x4        y1        y2        y3 
## 11.000000 11.000000 11.000000 11.000000  4.127269  4.127629  4.122620 
##        y4 
##  4.123249
#calculate correlation
cor(data$x1,data$y1)
## [1] 0.8164205
cor(data$x2,data$y2)
## [1] 0.8162365
cor(data$x3,data$y3)
## [1] 0.8162867
cor(data$x4,data$y4)
## [1] 0.8165214
  1. Create scatter plots for each \(x, y\) pair of data.
#Place your code here and delete this!
library(fBasics)

plot(data$x1,data$y1)

plot(data$x2,data$y2)

plot(data$x3,data$y3)

plot(data$x4,data$y4)

  1. Now change the symbols on the scatter plots to solid circles and plot them together as a 4 panel graphic
#Place your code here and delete this!

library(fBasics)

#setup panel
old.par1=par(mfrow=c(2,2))

#plot
plot(data$x1,data$y1,pch=20,bg="black")
plot(data$x2,data$y2,pch=20,bg="black")
plot(data$x3,data$y3,pch=20,bg="black")
plot(data$x4,data$y4,pch=20,bg="black")

par(old.par1)
  1. Now fit a linear model to each data set using the lm() function.
#Place your code here and delete this!
z1=lm(data$y1~data$x1)
z2=lm(data$y2~data$x2)
z3=lm(data$y3~data$x3)
z4=lm(data$y4~data$x4)
  1. Now combine the last two tasks. Create a four panel scatter plot matrix that has both the data points and the regression lines. (hint: the model objects will carry over chunks!)
#Place your code here and delete this!

#setup panel
old.par2=par(mfrow=c(2,2))

#abline function to add regression line
plot(data$x1,data$y1,pch=20,bg="black")
abline(z1,col="red")
plot(data$x2,data$y2,pch=20,bg="black")
abline(z2,col="red")
plot(data$x3,data$y3,pch=20,bg="black")
abline(z3,col="red")
plot(data$x4,data$y4,pch=20,bg="black")
abline(z4,col="red")

  1. Now compare the model fits for each model object.
#Place your code here and delete this!

#summary function to calculate p-value and R square
summary(z1)

Call: lm(formula = data\(y1 ~ data\)x1)

Residuals: Min 1Q Median 3Q Max -1.92127 -0.45577 -0.04136 0.70941 1.83882

Coefficients: Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 3.0001 1.1247 2.667 0.02573 * data$x1 0.5001 0.1179 4.241 0.00217 ** — Signif. codes: 0 ‘’ 0.001 ’’ 0.01 ’’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ’ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 1.237 on 9 degrees of freedom Multiple R-squared: 0.6665, Adjusted R-squared: 0.6295 F-statistic: 17.99 on 1 and 9 DF, p-value: 0.00217

summary(z2)

Call: lm(formula = data\(y2 ~ data\)x2)

Residuals: Min 1Q Median 3Q Max -1.9009 -0.7609 0.1291 0.9491 1.2691

Coefficients: Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 3.001 1.125 2.667 0.02576 * data$x2 0.500 0.118 4.239 0.00218 ** — Signif. codes: 0 ‘’ 0.001 ’’ 0.01 ’’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ’ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 1.237 on 9 degrees of freedom Multiple R-squared: 0.6662, Adjusted R-squared: 0.6292 F-statistic: 17.97 on 1 and 9 DF, p-value: 0.002179

summary(z3)

Call: lm(formula = data\(y3 ~ data\)x3)

Residuals: Min 1Q Median 3Q Max -1.1586 -0.6146 -0.2303 0.1540 3.2411

Coefficients: Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 3.0025 1.1245 2.670 0.02562 * data$x3 0.4997 0.1179 4.239 0.00218 ** — Signif. codes: 0 ‘’ 0.001 ’’ 0.01 ’’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ’ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 1.236 on 9 degrees of freedom Multiple R-squared: 0.6663, Adjusted R-squared: 0.6292 F-statistic: 17.97 on 1 and 9 DF, p-value: 0.002176

summary(z4)

Call: lm(formula = data\(y4 ~ data\)x4)

Residuals: Min 1Q Median 3Q Max -1.751 -0.831 0.000 0.809 1.839

Coefficients: Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 3.0017 1.1239 2.671 0.02559 * data$x4 0.4999 0.1178 4.243 0.00216 ** — Signif. codes: 0 ‘’ 0.001 ’’ 0.01 ’’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ’ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 1.236 on 9 degrees of freedom Multiple R-squared: 0.6667, Adjusted R-squared: 0.6297 F-statistic: 18 on 1 and 9 DF, p-value: 0.002165

#conclusion
#model fit is alsmot the same by looking at R square and p-value
  1. In text, summarize the lesson of Anscombe’s Quartet and what it says about the value of data visualization.

Conclusion: We can’t only trust numbers without showing graph. The graph is as important as calculation numbers.

Analysis: The above 4 datasets share the same means, variance, p value and R square. But by presenting the graph, we see the model fitting pattern are so differenct across each other. Therefore, when explorering the datasets, just creating the regression model is not enough. Presenting graphs helps us to understand the datasets better.