In Practice, You May Want to Use the OLS Estimator

question 11

Multiple Choice

In practice, you may want to use the OLS estimator instead of the WLS because

• A)heteroskedasticity is seldom a realistic problem
• B)OLS is easier to calculate
• C)heteroskedasticity robust standard errors can be calculated
• D)the functional form of the conditional variance function is rarely known

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