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Retail employees and office workers arrived early and took the best street spots, and when customers or clients arrived, they found no space at the curb. Studies estimated that approximately 30 percent of traffic in congested central business districts consisted of cars looking for parking.
Paved Paradise
Henry Grabar
The only nonintuitive twist with OLS is that the formula takes the square of each residual before adding them all up (which increases the weight given to observations that lie particularly far from the regression line, or the “outliers”).
Naked Statistics
Charles Wheelan
At the behest of U.S. investors, who feared for their property, President Taft dispatched marines to Guantánamo Bay and assembled a large naval force in the area.
How to Hide an Empire
Daniel Immerwahr
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