Regression analysis can be described as ________. A.) a statistical...

Regression analysis can be described as ________.

A.) a statistical hypothesis test in which the sampling distribution of the test statistic is a chi-square distribution when the null hypothesis is true

B.) a collection of statistical models in which the observed variance in a particular variable is partitioned into components attributable to different sources of variation

C.) a tool for building statistical models that characterize relationships among a dependent variable and one or more independent variables, all of which are numerical

D.) a statistical hypothesis test in which the test statistic follows a Student's t-distribution if the null hypothesis is supported