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In this chapter, we continue our discussion of data exploration, but this time we focus on exploring possible relationships among variables. As before, we take the types of variables into account while deciding on the appropriate summary statistics and visualization techniques for data exploration. We start by discussing situations where we are interested in the relationship between two numerical variables. Next, we talk about techniques for investigating the relationship between two categorical variables. Finally, we discuss situations where one variable is numerical and the other one is categorical.
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Shahbaba, B. (2012). Exploring Relationships. In: Biostatistics with R. Use R!. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1302-8_3
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