A Procedure Used for Finding the Equation of a Straight

question 47

Multiple Choice

A procedure used for finding the equation of a straight line that provides the best approximation for the relationship between the independent and dependent variables is the

• A)correlation analysis
• B)mean squares method
• C)least squares method
• D)most squares method

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