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A quant is performing a simple linear regression of a stock's returns on market returns.
Given four observations of (x, y) as (1, 2), (2, 2), (3, 4), (4, 4), what is the calculated least-squares slope β?
- 1.25
- 1.00
- 0.80
- 0.64
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