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Visualizing the difference

Before you start running hypothesis tests, it's a great idea to perform some exploratory data analysis. That is, calculating summary statistics and visualizing distributions.

Here, you'll look at the proportion of county-level votes for the Democratic candidate in 2012 and 2016, dem_votes_potus_12_16. Since the counties are the same in both years, these samples are paired. The columns containing the samples are dem_percent_12 and dem_percent_16.

dem_votes_potus_12_16 is available; dplyr and ggplot2 are loaded.

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Hypothesis Testing in R

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Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# View the dem_votes_potus_12_16 dataset
View(dem_votes_potus_12_16)

# Calculate the differences from 2012 to 2016
sample_dem_data <- ___


# See the result
sample_dem_data
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