The Straight Line That Comes the Closest to Going Through

question 7

Multiple Choice

The straight line that comes the closest to going through each conditional mean of y is the ______.

• A) coefficient of determination
• B) correlation coefficient
• C) closest fitting line
• D) best fitting line

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