In Regression an Observation Has High Leverage When

question 752

Multiple Choice

In regression an observation has high leverage when

• A) removing the observation causes a large change in one of more coefficients of the model.
• B) the observation is perfectly predicted by the regression.
• C) the observation is poorly predicted by the regression.
• D) the observation has a combination of x-values that is far from the center of the data.
• E) none of these

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Definitions:

Quantitative Variable

A variable with quantitative data.

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