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Glossary: Regression

Residual standard error

Also written: RSE, mse_resid

Roughly the typical size of a residual, in the outcome's units, computed as √(SSE/(n − 2)) for one predictor. For the ad spend model, a typical day is about 11 orders from the line.

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