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st: basic question on nl
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"Sarah Kristina Reuter" <[email protected]>
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st: basic question on nl
Date
Sat, 05 Nov 2011 18:20:16 +0100
Dear all,
sorry for another newbie question, that is not even Stata-specific:
What assumptions have to be met when performing a nonlinear least
squares (nl) regression?
In a linear LS-regression there are for example normally distributed and
uncorrelated errors, homoscedasticity and so on for the estimates to be
BLUE. Do the same assumtions hold in nl?
I've been checking some books but could find only the algorithms, not the
implicit assumptions...
I appreciate any help! Sorry again!
Thanks
Sarah