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Prices of Commercial Airline Tickets Have Fallen in Recent Months

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Prices of commercial airline tickets have fallen in recent months.Over this same period, the price of jet fuel has risen and consumer incomes have fallen.Which of the following best explains the falling prices of airline tickets? Assume that airline tickets are a normal good.


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Sum of Squares for Error

A measure used in statistical analysis to quantify the variation within a data set that is not explained by the model.

SSE

Sum of Squared Errors; a measure of the discrepancy between data and an estimation model, representing the squared differences between observed and predicted values.

Total Sum of Squares

The sum of squared differences between each observation and the overall mean, a measure of total variation within a dataset.

Larger

In a statistical context, this could refer to a value or effect size that is greater in magnitude compared to another value or effect size.

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