Q59Section C (Section C)59 of 60
Sum of least squares regression estimates
Consider the linear regression model , where and are unknown parameters and 's are independent and identically distributed random variables having distribution. The data on are given in the following table.
| | 1.0 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 4.5 | |—|—|—|—|—|—|—| | | 2.0 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 4.2 | 5.0 | 5.4 |
If and are the least squares estimates of and , respectively, based on the above data, then equals __________ (round off to decimal places)
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