What type of analysis fits a plane to observations in a multidimensional space?
A)Simple linear regression
B)Multiple regression analysis
C)Multiple discriminant analysis
D)Dummy variable analysis
E)Collinearity analysis

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Multiple regression analysis can be used to fit a plane (or higher dimensional hyperplane) to observations in a multidimensional space by finding the coefficients that linearly combine the independent variables to produce the dependent variable. Simple linear regression is only appropriate for fitting a line to two-dimensional data, and the other options listed are not relevant to this type of analysis.

What Type of Analysis Fits a Plane to Observations in a Multidimensional