Econometrica

Journal Of The Econometric Society

An International Society for the Advancement of Economic
Theory in its Relation to Statistics and Mathematics

Edited by: Guido W. Imbens • Print ISSN: 0012-9682 • Online ISSN: 1468-0262

Econometrica: Jul, 1977, Volume 45, Issue 5

Bounds for the Bias of the Least Squares Estimator of @s^2 in the Case of a First-Order Autoregressive Process (Positive Autocorrelation)

https://doi.org/0012-9682(197707)45:5<1257:BFTBOT>2.0.CO;2-E
p. 1257-1262

H. Neudecker

This paper considers the least squares estimator of @?^2 in the linear model with disturbances generated by a first-order autoregressive process. It is well known that the estimator is biased. In this paper an attempt is made to establish bounds for the bias. These bounds depend on n, k, and @r, where n is the number of observations, k is the number of parameters, and @r is the (positive) coefficient of the autoregressive process.


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