Match Each Description with the Item Below

question 12

Multiple Choice

Match each description with the item below.
-Walter Mondale

• A)was Ronald Reagan's budget director who proposed major reductions in federal spending
• B)was the youngest combat pilot to have flown in the U.S. military and was an oil executive in Texas
• C)was a televangelist and founder of the Moral Majority
• D)worked to fend off communism in the Screen Actor's Guild and was governor of California
• E)met with Ronald Reagan to discuss ways to reduce the threat of nuclear war
• F)was a National Security Council aide and the main actor in the Iran-Contra affair
• G)was a landmark appointee to the Supreme Court by Ronald Reagan
• H)was a Texas billionaire who appealed to Americans who were fed up with the two major parties
• I)made history as a vice-presidential candidate chosen by Walter Mondale
• J)said, "[My opponent] will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did."

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Definitions:

Coefficient Of Determination

A statistical measure that determines the proportion of the variance in the dependent variable that is predictable from the independent variable(s).

SSE

The aggregate of error squares, being the difference between model estimates and observed data, showing how well a model fits.

Least Squares Method

The method used to develop the estimated regression equation. It minimizes the sum of squared residuals (the deviations between the observed values of the dependent variable, yi, and the predicted values of the dependent variable, ŷi).