With Regard to the Least Squares Procedure, Any Data Point

question 33

Multiple Choice

With regard to the least squares procedure, any data point that does not fall on the regression line is the result of:

• A) specific variance.
• B) nonresidual variance.
• C) unexplained variance.
• D) sum of the squared errors.
• E) multicollinearity.

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