All of the Following Are Assumptions of the Error Terms

question 66

Multiple Choice

All of the following are assumptions of the error terms in the simple linear regression model except:

• A)Errors are normally distributed.
• B)Error terms have a mean of zero.
• C)Error terms have a constant variance.
• D)Error terms are dependent on each other.

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