[Tex/LaTex] Beginner: Drawing using Tikz

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I was quite impressed by the figures generated by TikZ and wanted to try TikZ to generate a few figures (please see the attached image drawn using an external WYSWYG program). When I tried to reproduce the figures myself using TikZ I found it very difficult to control the shapes in required positions. What is the simplest method to draw!these figures using TikZ?

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Best Answer

With next code you can obtain first example. All others can be easily done after reading first tutorial in TiKZ documentation (pgfmanual).

\documentclass[tikz,border=3mm]{standalone}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw [->] (-1.5,0)--(3,0);
\draw [->] (0,-1.5)--(0,3);
\draw[dashed] (-1,0)--(0,1)--(1,0)--(0,-1)--cycle;
\node[below left] at (0,0) {$x$};
\draw[shorten <=-1cm, shorten >=-3mm] (0,1)--(2,0) node [midway, above] {$A$};
\node[above right] at (0,1) {$\hat{x}$};
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

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