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A Technique for Fitting a Straight Line to a Scattergram

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A technique for fitting a straight line to a scattergram by minimizing the square of the vertical distances of all the points from the line is known as the ________.


Definitions:

Empirical Rule

A rule that can be used to compute the percentage of data values that must be within one, two, and three standard deviations of the mean for data that exhibit a bell-shaped distribution.

Sample Space

The entire set of possible outcomes in a probability experiment or situation.

Sample Point

A single outcome from a statistical experiment.

Event

An occurrence or result that can be defined within a certain context, particularly in probability and statistics.

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