Describing Relationships

Is there a relationship between smoking and lung cancer? Do people who care for dogs live longer? Is your university's admissions department sexist?

Tackling these exciting questions is only possible when we take a step beyond simply describing univariate datasets—one step beyond!

We will be covering the following topics in this chapter:

  • Multivariate data
  • Relationships between a categorical and continuous variable
  • Relationships between two categorical variables
  • Visualization methods

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