Misspecification of Functional Form of the Regression Function

question 20

Multiple Choice

Misspecification of functional form of the regression function

• A)is overcome by adding the squares of all explanatory variables.
• B)is more serious in the case of homoskedasticity-only standard error.
• C)results in a type of omitted variable bias.
• D)requires alternative estimation methods such as maximum likelihood.

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