| Article ID: | iaor201112187 |
| Volume: | 33 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 49 |
| End Page Number: | 52 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2011 |
| Journal: | Teaching Statistics |
| Authors: | Sorto M Alejandra, White Alexander, Lesser Lawrence M |
| Keywords: | statistics: regression |
The least squares method of fitting a line is not one that naturally occurs to students. We present three tasks to understand student views on how lines may be fit.