A Reason for Squaring Deviations to Compute SS in the Numerator

question 15

Multiple Choice

A reason for squaring deviations to compute SS in the numerator includes which of the following?

• A) The sum of the differences of scores from their mean is zero.
• B) The sum of the squared differences of scores from their mean is minimal.
• C) Squaring scores can be readily corrected by square rooting.
• D) All of these.

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