Theodore Roosevelt's Actions on Conservation and Regulation of Business and Abraham

question 47

Multiple Choice

Theodore Roosevelt's actions on conservation and regulation of business and Abraham Lincoln's issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation are a few examples of

• A) the limits of presidential power.
• B) the increase and expansion of presidential power.
• C) how the three branches of government check and balance one another.
• D) how public opinion can influence a president's actions.

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Definitions:

Least Squares

A method in statistics for approximating the solution of overdetermined systems, by minimizing the differences between the observed and predicted values.

Simple Linear Regression

A statistical method used to model the relationship between a single independent variable and a dependent variable by fitting a linear equation to observed data.

Normally Distributed

A statistical distribution that is symmetrical about the mean, where most observations cluster around the central peak and the probabilities for values further away from the mean taper off equally in both directions.

Parameters

In statistics, parameters are numerical characteristics of a population, such as its mean or standard deviation.