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residual sum of squares

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.27 in modern English

Syllables
resid-u-al -sum of squares
IPA
35
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The sum of the squared residuals between some model and a data set; a measure of how well the model fits with the data.

Inflected Forms

residual sums of squares (plural)

Questions

What does residual sum of squares mean?
The sum of the squared residuals between some model and a data set; a measure of how well the model fits with the data.

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