 Homoscedasticity and heteroscedasticity (source code)

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= Homoscedasticity and heteroscedasticity
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These describe constancy or variation of conditional error <variance> across observations. A homoscedastic <regression model> has $\operatorname{Var}(\varepsilon_i\mid X)=\sigma^2$; a heteroscedastic model allows this variance to depend on the observation or its covariates.

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