Statistics: Informed Decisions Using Data (4th Edition)

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Chapter 4 - Section 4.2 - Assess Your Understanding - Explaining the Concepts - Page 220: 31

Answer

We should not use the regression model to make predictions for values of the explanatory variable that are much larger or much smaller than those observed. This is a dangerous practice because we cannot be certain of the behavior of the data for which we have no observations.

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