The file profits.csv includes data on profits and assets of 88 firms (some firms having missing data). The variables in the data set are and , which are each firm’s profit and assets in million dollars, and which is a dummy variable which is equal to 1 if the CEO of the firm is not the owner of the firm, and is zero otherwise. Use R to get the scatterplot of against . What does the scatterplot suggest?

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The file  profits.csv  includes data on profits and assets of 88 firms (some firms having missing data). The variables in the data set are    and   , which are each firm’s profit and assets in million dollars, and    which is a dummy variable which is equal to 1 if the CEO of the firm is not the owner of the firm, and is zero otherwise. Use R to get the scatterplot of    against   . What does the scatterplot suggest?

profits <-- read.csv("profits.csv") 
   library(ggplot2) 
   ggplot(profits, aes(x = assets, y = profits)) + geom_point()

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