
Introductory Statistics
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Author: Barbara Illowsky, Susan Dean
Publisher: OpenStax College
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Chapter 12, Problem 56P
The Standard Deviation for the Sum of Squared Errors for a data set is 9.8. What is the cutoff for the vertical distance
that a point can be from the line of best fit to be considered an outlier?
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