1. Department of Statistics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL;2. tamalg@ufl.edu;4. Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Abstract:
AbstractThe article revisits univariate and multivariate linear regression models. It is shown that least-square estimators (LSEs) are minimum risk estimators in general class of linear unbiased estimators under some general divergence loss. This amounts to the loss robustness of LSEs.