A Technique for Fitting a Straight Line to a Scattergram

question 37

Multiple Choice

A technique for fitting a straight line to a scattergram by minimizing the square of the vertical distances of all the points from the line is known as the ________.

• A) sum of square errors procedure
• B) least-square procedure
• C) maximum residual procedure
• D) scatter diagram plot

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