Introducing Statistics: Do Those Points Align?

AP Statistics· difficulty 3/5

A residual plot shows a fan/cone shape: residuals spread out as x increases.

Residual Plot

Which condition is violated?

  • A

    Linearity

  • B

    Normality

  • C

    Equal variance

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  • D

    Random sample

Explanation

A fan-shaped residual plot indicates non-constant variance (heteroscedasticity) — the equal-variance condition is violated.

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