Inference in Linear Models with Nonstochastic Biased Factors

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Obenchain (1977) claimed that ridge techniques with nonstochastic of biased factors don't generally yield "new" normal theory statistical inference than that used in least squares technique, and that the t and F statistics are identical under both techniques. Theorems (1)-(3), in this paper, prove that this is true when using the unbasid ordinary least squares estimator S2 of σ2 Moreover, a counter example is introduced to show that the normal theory doesn't apply when using the ridge regression estimator Sr2 of σ2 instead of using the least squares estimator S2.

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