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Parallel Lines in Residual Plots

Shayle R. Searle Biometrics Unit, New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 14850, USA
Page 211 | Received 01 Oct 1987, Published online: 27 Feb 2012
 
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Abstract

Attention is drawn to a little-known feature of residuals plotted against predicted values: When observed values of y are repeated in the data, then the plot exhibits a series of parallel lines having slope — 1.

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