Detection and Dealing of Multicollinearity Using a New Ridge Estimator
摘要
The Ordinary Least Square (OLS) method is a widely used technique for estimating regression coefficients that describe the relationship between the independent variables and the dependent variable. The regression estimates obtained using this approach give a poor result in the presence of multicollinearity. Ridge regression is employed to address this problem. A ridge estimator, also called a biasing constant, plays a notable role in the parameter estimation of ridge regression. In this paper, we introduced a new ridge estimator and studied its properties. A comparative study of the proposed estimator with some of the existing ridge estimators under extreme multicollinearity has been illustrated by using a simulation technique. The estimator developed in this paper seems to perform better than all the other estimators because of the smaller ratio of average mean square error. The performance of the proposed estimator is analysed and verified using real-life data.