In class we have talked about a regression model representing the "line of best fit". To estimate this best fitting model we said that Excel had to minimize which of the following? Group of answer choices Sum of Positive Errors Sum of Absolute Errors Sum of Negative Errors Sum of Errors Sum of Squared Errors
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