If You Model Has Heteroskedastic Error Terms,but You Do Not

question 8

Multiple Choice

If you model has heteroskedastic error terms,but you do not know the functional form of the variance equation,what should be done?

• A)use White's Robust Estimator
• B)use weighted least squares
• C)try different functional forms for the variance until the Lagrange Multiplier falls 10%
• D)add observations to the dataset and estimate again

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