A Straight Line Fitted Through the Points in a Scatterplot

question 39

Multiple Choice

A straight line fitted through the points in a scatterplot that minimizes Σ(Y - Y') 2 is called a line.

• A)correlation
• B)residual
• C)linear
• D)least-squares regression

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