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Asymptotic Methods in Statistical Inference - Statistics Centre

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• We apply this to simple l<strong>in</strong>ear regression. =<br />

+ + with the usual assumptions (but NOT<br />

assum<strong>in</strong>g normal errors), so has mean + <br />

and variance 2 . The LSEs are ˆ = ¯ − ˆ¯ and<br />

ˆ =<br />

=<br />

=<br />

P ( − ¯) <br />

P ( − ¯) 2<br />

1<br />

q P ( − ¯) 2 X<br />

<br />

1<br />

q P ( − ¯) 2 X<br />

[ + + ] <br />

with =( − ¯) q P ( − ¯) 2 . S<strong>in</strong>ce P =<br />

0and P = P P<br />

( − ¯) =q<br />

( − ¯) 2 ,<br />

we have that<br />

P <br />

ˆ = + q P ( − ¯) 2<br />

hence<br />

r X<br />

( − ¯) 2 ³ ˆ − ´<br />

= X <br />

→ (0 2 )<br />

as long as max 1≤≤ | − ¯| 2 = ³ P ( − ¯) 2´.

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