Imagine That You Had Discovered a Relationship That Would Generate $x _ { i } ^ { 2 }$

question 61

Essay

Imagine that you had discovered a relationship that would generate a scatterplot very similar to the relationship Y_i = $x _ { i } ^ { 2 }$ , and that you would try to fit a linear regression through your data points. What do you expect the slope coefficient to be? What do you think the value of your regression R² is in this situation? What are the implications from your answers in terms of fitting a linear regression through a non-linear relationship?

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