Linear Regression Quiz

Carl Friedrich Gauss in 1795, to study planetary and stellar movements

Isaac Newton, to study gravity

Albert Einstein, to develop relativity theory

Thomas Bayes, to develop probability theory

y must be either -1 or +1

y must be a whole number

y must be positive

y can be any real number

The slope of the line

The predicted score for 0 hours of study

The number of study hours

The average test score

To give less weight to smaller errors

To give more weight to larger errors

To make all errors positive, regardless of whether we predicted too high or too low

To match the scale of the original data