If the Functional Form of the Conditional Variance Function Is

question 48

Multiple Choice

If the functional form of the conditional variance function is incorrect,then

• A)the standard errors computed by WLS regression routines are invalid
• B)the OLS estimator is biased
• C)instrumental variable techniques have to be used
• D)the regression R2 can no longer be computed

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