All of the following are statements of the criteria used to find the line that "best" describes the data in a multiple regression except for what?
A) The residuals for all data points average to zero.
B) The size of the residuals is not correlated with the treatment level for any treatment.
C) The sum of the residuals for all data points sum to zero.
D) The size of the residuals is not correlated with the outcome level.

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Choices A, B, and C are all criteria commonly used to find the line of best fit in multiple regression analysis. However, size of the residuals being not correlated with the outcome level is not a commonly used criterion. Instead, the focus is on the size of the residuals not being too large and not showing any discernible pattern.

All of the Following Are Statements of the Criteria Used