scatter diagram

American

noun

Statistics.

a graphic representation of bivariate data as a set of points in the plane that have Cartesian coordinates equal to corresponding values of the two variates.

scatter diagram British

noun

statistics a graph that plots along two axes at right angles to each other the relationship between two variable quantities, such as height and weight

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Etymology

Origin of scatter diagram

First recorded in 1920–25

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