Confidence Intervals for the Slope of a Regression Model

AP Statistics· difficulty 2/5

A regression output reports s = 4.2 (the standard error of the estimate, or RMSE).

Output s = 4.2 (standard deviation of residuals)

What does s represent?

  • A

    Standard error of intercept

  • B

    Slope's standard error

  • C

    Standard deviation of x

  • D

    Typical residual size around the regression line

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Explanation

s (or SEE) is the typical magnitude of the residuals — the spread of points around the fitted line.

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