Qualitative Inconsistency in the Two Regressor Case,

Abstract

One often has reason to suspect non-zero correlation between regressors and error term when using OLS regression in an economic context. However, positive statements may sometimes still be made if one knows the direction of inconsistency in the OLS coefficient estimators. The inconsistency in the least squares estimator of the coefficient of a variable when it alone is correlated with the error term is well known. The purpose of the paper is to further investigate qualitative inconsistency in a two regressor model. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0737678

Entities

People

  • Bob Ayanian

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Coefficients
  • Estimators

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Regression Analysis.