Consider the problem described at the end of Section 2-6, running a regression and only estimating an
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Consider the problem described at the end of Section 2-6, running a regression and only estimating an intercept.
(i) Given a sample {yi: i 5 1, 2,c, n}, let β́0 be the solution to
Show that β̅0 = y̅, that is, the sample average minimizes the sum of squared residuals.
(ii) Define residuals u̅I = yi – y̅. Argue that these residuals always sum to zero.
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Introductory Econometrics A Modern Approach
ISBN: 9781337558860
7th Edition
Authors: Jeffrey Wooldridge
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