The Distances for All the Points on the Regression Line

question 29

Multiple Choice

The distances for all the points on the regression line are squared and added together to compute the ________,which is a measure of total error.

• A) correlation errors
• B) standard error of the mean
• C) sum of the squared errors
• D) random distribution error
• E) distance log

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