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Least Squares

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Larry Ottman

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By showing the residuals and/or the residual squares, experiment with a movable line to minimize the sum of the residual squares.  This app helps develop an intuitive feel for the process of fitting a line to data, specifically the Least Squares Regression Line. (S-ID 6c)

Tags: Least-squares-resgression, residuals, line, fit, function, Algebra, Statistics, Common-Core
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