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Scatter plots

Describe an association without inferring its cause.

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Scatter plots

Six locations were observed once. Several unmeasured factors could influence the number of trees.

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Fictional settlement transect1 km: 21 trees; 2 km: 12 trees; 3 km: 3 trees; 4 km: 3 trees; 5 km: 12 trees; 6 km: 21 trees05101520253035123456Trees within 50 mDistance from town centre (km)
Distance (km)Trees within 50 m
121
212
33
43
512
621
Fictional settlement transect. Original fictional resource; not an official map or real dataset.
Resource description

1 km: 21 trees; 2 km: 12 trees; 3 km: 3 trees; 4 km: 3 trees; 5 km: 12 trees; 6 km: 21 trees

1. Which description best fits the pattern?

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2. Which interpretation follows from the paired observations?

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State the unit and the part of the resource you used. A pattern in a fictional dataset is evidence for that exercise; it does not establish a fact about a real place.

Check whether an explanation is supported by the data or needs additional geographical knowledge. For statistical tasks, a calculated result does not establish causation or significance by itself.

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