A Technique for Fitting a Straight Line to a Scattergram

question 19

Multiple Choice

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 _ .

• A) scatter diagram plot
• B) maximum residual procedure
• C) sum of square errors procedure
• D) least- square procedure

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Definitions:

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