While Performing the Regression Analysis of Historical Returns of a Stock

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Essay

While performing the regression analysis of historical returns of a stock with a historical return of a general market index, you would plot the line of best fit through those data points. The slope of that line represents the beta of the stock in question. However, in most instances the data points do not lie exactly on that line. Explain the reason.

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