Regression Diagnostics

Free GARP FRM Part I lesson in Quantitative Analysis. 19 min read, ~2,841 words.

OLS is BLUE (Best Linear Unbiased Estimator) only when the Gauss-Markov assumptions hold: linearity, zero-mean errors, homoskedasticity, no autocorrelation, no perfect collinearity. Heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation leave the coefficient estimates unbiased but ruin the standard errors; fix heteroskedasticity with White-robust SEs, not by re-estimating beta. Multicollinearity does not bias coefficients but...

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