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Residual Sum of Squares (RSS)
RSS is the aggregated squared residuals of all of the data. This is shown with the formula:
or alternatively, , where are the model parameters.
The RSS should be a smaller or lower value in any regression model. The smaller the RSS, the better the model fits the data
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Updated 2021-02-17
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