The Study of State and Local Government Tends to Receive

question 31

True/False

The study of state and local government tends to receive less attention than national politics partly because scholars and journalists tend to focus on glamorous imperial presidents, a rancorous and gridlocked Congress, and an independent and powerful Supreme Court.

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Definitions:

Degrees Of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities which can be assigned to a statistical distribution or a system without violating any constraints.

Multiple Regression

A statistical method that predicts the behavior of a dependent variable based on two or more independent variables.

Estimated Regression

A statistical method for estimating the relationships among variables, often used to predict the value of a dependent variable based on values of independent variables.

SSR

Sum of Squares due to Regression, a statistical measure used to evaluate the variance in the dependent variable that is predictable from the independent variable(s).