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* Put () around \sum Y_i - n \bar Y to disambiguate what
  sum applies to -- that is, ( (\sum Y_i) - n \bar Y )
* Use \left, \right on (s to improve formula formattting
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Alexander Conley committed Nov 4, 2014
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### The math (not required for the class) follows as:
$$
\begin{align}
\sum_{i=1}^n (Y_i - \mu)^2 & = \
\sum_{i=1}^n (Y_i - \bar Y + \bar Y - \mu)^2 \\
& = \sum_{i=1}^n (Y_i - \bar Y)^2 + \
2 \sum_{i=1}^n (Y_i - \bar Y) (\bar Y - \mu) +\
\sum_{i=1}^n (\bar Y - \mu)^2 \\
& = \sum_{i=1}^n (Y_i - \bar Y)^2 + \
2 (\bar Y - \mu) \sum_{i=1}^n (Y_i - \bar Y) +\
\sum_{i=1}^n (\bar Y - \mu)^2 \\
& = \sum_{i=1}^n (Y_i - \bar Y)^2 + \
2 (\bar Y - \mu) (\sum_{i=1}^n Y_i - n \bar Y) +\
\sum_{i=1}^n (\bar Y - \mu)^2 \\
& = \sum_{i=1}^n (Y_i - \bar Y)^2 + \sum_{i=1}^n (\bar Y - \mu)^2\\
& \geq \sum_{i=1}^n (Y_i - \bar Y)^2 \
\sum_{i=1}^n \left(Y_i - \mu\right)^2 & = \
\sum_{i=1}^n \left(Y_i - \bar Y + \bar Y - \mu\right)^2 \\
& = \sum_{i=1}^n \left(Y_i - \bar Y\right)^2 + \
2 \sum_{i=1}^n \left(Y_i - \bar Y\right) \left(\bar Y - \mu\right) +\
\sum_{i=1}^n \left(\bar Y - \mu\right)^2 \\
& = \sum_{i=1}^n \left(Y_i - \bar Y\right)^2 + \
2 \left(\bar Y - \mu\right) \sum_{i=1}^n \left(Y_i - \bar Y\right) +\
\sum_{i=1}^n \left(\bar Y - \mu\right)^2 \\
& = \sum_{i=1}^n \left(Y_i - \bar Y\right)^2 + \
2 \left(\bar Y - \mu\right) \left(\left(\sum_{i=1}^n Y_i\right) -\
n \bar Y\right) +\
\sum_{i=1}^n \left(\bar Y - \mu\right)^2 \\
& = \sum_{i=1}^n \left(Y_i - \bar Y\right)^2 + \
\sum_{i=1}^n \left(\bar Y - \mu\right)^2\\
& \geq \sum_{i=1}^n \left(Y_i - \bar Y\right)^2 \
\end{align}
$$

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