A Friend Tells You There Is No Reason to Worry

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Essay

A friend tells you there is no reason to worry about the ozone layer. In fact, he says, today's air quality report says there is plenty of ozone around the city. How would you respond?

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Definitions:

SSE

The sum of squared errors, a measure used in statistics to quantify the discrepancy between the observed and the predicted values in a model.

Larger

Having greater size, quantity, or magnitude than something else or than usual.

Coefficient of Determination

A statistical measure, often denoted as R^2, that represents the proportion of the variance for a dependent variable that's explained by one or more independent variables in a regression model.

Slope

The rate of change in the dependent variable for a unit change in the independent variable in a linear relationship.