A Procedure Used for Finding the Equation of a Straight

question 35

Multiple Choice

A procedure used for finding the equation of a straight line that provides the best approximation for the relationship between the independent and dependent variables is ______.

• A) correlation analysis
• B) the mean squares method
• C) the least squares method
• D) the most squares method

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