How do I... USE & CREATE SCATTERPLOTS in Jamovi? (2022)

Can I use scatterplots in Jamovi? Where do scatterplots appear in Jamovi analyses? The default ones are a little - are there other options? I have these answers and more in this next episode of learning stats with Jamovi!
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[@Aniyoshi]

When I try to create a scatterplot with my continuous variables, I get a grid of equidistant dots instead of scattered dots. I'm not sure why this happens.

[@AlexanderSwan]

Without seeing it, I can't tell you why that happens/is happening. The only thing I can think of off the top of my head is that you might be plotting integers and the plotting engine in R is choosing the scale based on that?
Feel free to email me or catch me on my discord and post some screenshots.

[@Aniyoshi]

@@AlexanderSwan I think you're right. All of my numbers are whole integers on a relatively small scale no matter which variables I'm using.

[@atothek7667]

What do I do if my variables dont show a linearity, am I still allowed to do pearson or spearman for the correlationmatrix since linearity is a condition for the computation of the correlation?

[@AlexanderSwan]

If you have a clear nonlinear/curvilinear pattern in your data, you cannot use linear regression to analyze the data/determine patterns. You'll need to use polynomials and other methods to determine the actual shape.

[@atothek7667]

@@AlexanderSwan I dont understand what you mean, can you explain it to me again please? 🙏🏼 am I allowed to still do a spearman or pearson correlation analysis? I‘m NOT doing multiple regression, just the normal correlations via correlation matrix

[@atothek7667]

@@AlexanderSwan is the pearson correlation coefficient a synonym for a linear regression?