Terminology

Your instructor, textbook, or software package may use different terms than those used in the tutorial. Below we provide a listing of alternate terms.

SS Total

Total variance, SS Corrected Total (SAS)

SS Error

Error variance, Residual variance, SS Residual (SPSS, SYSTAT)

SS Predicted

Explained variance, SS Regression (SPSS, SYSTAT), SS Model (SAS)

R-Squared

Coefficient of Determination

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