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-3) **Homoscedasticity:** We assume that the residuals have a constant variance across all levels or values of x (if not, we refer to that as heterscedasticity)
+3) **Homoscedasticity:** We assume that the residuals have a constant variance across all levels or values of x (if not, we refer to that as heteroscedasticity)
 
 
 ```{r, fig.width= 8, fig.height= 4, fig.fullwidth= T, echo= F, fig.align='left', fig.cap= '**Figure 1: Residuals from linear model across a range of x (predictor variable). Heteroscedasticity is demonstrated as a funnel shape.**'}