Ranting at stats homework frustration.

[flybystardancer]

Okay, so those who know how to do statistical analysis on scatter plot graphs know that when doing a linear regression line, the higher the r^2 is, the closer all the datapoints are to the regression line.

Well, for this particular problem I have to graph two lines from two sets of data.
Anyone recognize what's wrong with this graph?


Well, the line for the "right" data has an r^2 of 0.0928 while the "left" data has an r^2 of 0.1018. And yet, the "right" datapoints are clearly shown as being a lot closer to the regression line! Argh!!

Comments

[poptartodoom.livejournal.com]

Your points are all lost! Maybe they need a good swift kick.

BTW, what stats program are you using? SPSS pro is the best ever. (I totally ganked my copy off a prof, I thought that's the one that I'd bought and was waiting for, but then the student edition came in the mail. Heh. ^_^;;; )

[flybystardancer.livejournal.com]

I'm using Excell. I probably should be using MiniTab (since that's what all the computer labs for this class and stuff have us do stats on), but I'm lazy and don't wanna leave my room.