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Sum of squares of deviations
Author(s) -
Bukac Josef,
Sulc Jakub
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/test.12212
Subject(s) - explained sum of squares , total sum of squares , mathematics , statistics , lack of fit sum of squares , least squares function approximation , residual sum of squares , generalized least squares , standard deviation , non linear least squares , econometrics , estimator
Summary The question is whether or not we or any student are allowed to define a measure of variability in some other way that is not written in textbooks and officially approved. We compare the sum of squares of all deviations against the usual sum of squares of deviations from the mean.