Show First That the Regression R² Is the Square of the Sample

question 35

Essay

Show first that the regression R² is the square of the sample correlation coefficient. Next, show that the slope of a simple regression of Y on X is only identical to the inverse of the regression slope of X on Y if the regression R² equals one.

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