“The statistician knows...that in nature there never was a normal distribution, there never was a straight line, yet with normal and linear assumptions, known to be false, he can often derive results ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this note the method of MINQUE is outlined to estimate the variances and covariances in a linear regression model and is used to estimate ...

In this module, we will introduce generalized linear models (GLMs) through the study of binomial data. In particular, we will motivate the need for GLMs; introduce the binomial regression model, ...

In this paper we study the problem of testing the functional form of a given regression model. A consistent test is proposed which is based on the difference of the least squares variance estimator in ...

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