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Linear regression assumes that the spread of the outcome-values is the same for each predictor value. This assumption is, however, not warranted in many real life situations.
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Cleophas, T.J., Zwinderman, A.H. (2013). Weighted Least Squares. In: Machine Learning in Medicine. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7869-6_10
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