1. Exploratory Data Analysis
1.3. EDA Techniques
1.3.3. Graphical Techniques: Alphabetic
1.3.3.26. Scatter Plot

1.3.3.26.7.

Scatter Plot: Sinusoidal Relationship (damped)

Scatter Plot Showing a Sinusoidal Relationship

Discussion

The complex relationship between X and Y appears to be basically oscillatory, and so one is naturally drawn to the trigonometric sinusoidal model:

Closer inspection of the scatter plot reveals that the amount of swing (the amplitude in the model) does not appear to be constant but rather is decreasing (damping) as X gets large. We thus would be led to the conclusion: damped sinusoidal relationship, with the simplest corresponding model being