Week 6: Bivariate dependencies and relationships, transformations to linearise

Main reference

Wilke (2019) Ch 12 Visualising associations

What you will learn this week

  • The humble but powerful scatterplot
  • Additions and variations
  • Transformations to linearity
  • (Robust) numerical measures of association
  • Simpson’s paradox
  • Making null samples to test for association
  • Imputing missing values
  • Associations as networks

Lecture slides

Worksheet

Tutorial instructions

Assignments

  • Exercises 2 is due on Monday 01 September.
  • Quiz 5 is due on Thursday 04 September.
  • Quiz 6 is due on Thursday 11 September.