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State whether the following statements are correct or not in the context of regression analysis, and...

State whether the following statements are correct or not in the context of regression analysis, and explain why:

a. The sum of OLS residuals is zero.

b. The OLS estimator of b0 of the regression equation y = b0 + u is the sample mean of y.

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Answer #1

a.

Correct.

Reason: OLS method provides mean value of Y for a given X i.e. E(Y|X). When all deviations are summed up, errors are summed up in following way:

Sum(ei) = Sum(Y - E(Y|X)) = 0

b.

Correct.

As I presented in part a, conditional means of Y are calculated when X is present.

In this case (absence of X), only unconditional mean of Y is calculated which is also known as sample mean.

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