Characteristic of the least-squares regression line

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Question: Which of the following is not a characteristic of the least-squares regression line?

(a) The slope of the least-squares regression line is always between -1 and 1.

(b) The least-squares regression line always goes through the point (x¯, y¯).

(c) The least-squares regression line minimizes the sum of squared residuals.

(d) The slope of the least-squares regression line will always have the same sign as the correlation.

(e) The least-squares regression line is not resistant to outliers.

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