When We Have Considerable Spread of the Points About the Regression

question 43

Multiple Choice

When we have considerable spread of the points about the regression line, the slope of that line will be _______ the slope of a similar line when there is less scatter.

• A) less than
• B) more than
• C) the same as
• D) more extreme than

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