A Technique for Fitting a Straight Line to a Scattergram

question 41

Multiple Choice

A technique for fitting a straight line to a scattergram by minimizing the sum of the squares of the vertical distances of all the points from the line is called the ________.

• A) most-squares procedure
• B) analysis of variance
• C) least-squares procedure
• D) correlation equation
• E) vertical minimization algorithm

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Definitions:

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