The slope estimator, ?1, has a smaller standard error, other things equal, if
A) there is more variation in the explanatory variable, X.
B) there is a large variance of the error term, u.
C) the sample size is smaller.
D) the intercept, ?0, is small.
Answer: A) there is more variation in the explanatory variable, X.
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