Explain why it does not make sense to find a least-squares regression line for the Bear Market

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Explain why it does not make sense to find a least-squares regression line for the Bear Market data from Problem 34 in Section 4.1.

Data from in problem 34

A bear market in the stock market is defined as a condition in which the market declines by 20% or more over the course of at least two months. The following data represent the number of months and percentage change in the S&P 500 (a group of 500 stocks) for a sample of bear markets.

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Fundamentals Of Statistics

ISBN: 9780136807346

6th Edition

Authors: Michael Sullivan III

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