If the Error Term Is Correlated with Any of the Independent

question 19

Multiple Choice

If the error term is correlated with any of the independent variables, the OLS estimators are:

• A)biased and consistent.
• B)unbiased and inconsistent.
• C)biased and inconsistent.
• D)unbiased and consistent.

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