A technique for fitting a straight line to a scattergram by minimizing the sum of the squares of the vertical distances of all the points from the line is called the ________.

A technique for fitting a straight line to a scattergram by minimizing the sum of the squares of the vertical distances of all the points from the line is called the ________.

A technique for fitting a straight line to a scattergram by minimizing the sum of the squares of the vertical distances of all the points from the line is called the ________.



A) most-squares procedure

B) analysis of variance

C) least-squares procedure

D) correlation equation

E) vertical minimization algorithm



Answer: C


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