Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Γενικευμένοι Ελάχιστοι Τετράγωνοι (GLS)	Παλινδρόμηση Ελαχίστων Τετραγώνων (OLS)	Στιβαρή ΜΕΤ (ΜΕΤ με Στιβαρά Τυπικά Σφάλματα)
Πεδίο	Στατιστική	Οικονομετρία	Οικονομετρία
Οικογένεια	Regression model	Regression model	Regression model
Έτος προέλευσης	1935	2019	1980
Δημιουργός	Alexander Craig Aitken	Wooldridge (textbook treatment); classical least squares	Halbert White
Τύπος	Linear estimator	Linear regression	Linear regression with robust inference
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Aitken, A. C. (1935). IV.—On least squares and linear combination of observations. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 55, 42–48.	Wooldridge, J. M. (2019). Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach (7th ed.). Cengage Learning. ISBN: 978-1337558860	White, H. (1980). A heteroskedasticity-consistent covariance matrix estimator and a direct test for heteroskedasticity. Econometrica, 48(4), 817–838.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	GLS, Aitken estimator, EGLS, feasible GLS	ordinary least squares, classical linear regression, linear regression, en küçük kareler regresyonu	HC robust regression, White robust OLS, sandwich estimator OLS, OLS with robust standard errors
Συναφείς	3	5	6
Σύνοψη	Generalized Least Squares (GLS) is a linear regression estimator that extends ordinary least squares to handle situations where the error terms are correlated or have non-constant variance (heteroscedasticity). Introduced by Alexander Craig Aitken in 1935, GLS achieves the Best Linear Unbiased Estimator (BLUE) under a general error covariance structure by weighting observations according to their precision, providing a theoretical bridge between OLS and modern linear mixed models.	Ordinary Least Squares is the classical linear regression method that explains a continuous outcome as a linear combination of predictors. It estimates the coefficients by minimising the sum of squared residuals, and under the Gauss-Markov assumptions these estimates are the best linear unbiased estimator (BLUE).	Robust OLS applies ordinary least squares to estimate coefficients and then replaces the classical standard errors with heteroscedasticity-consistent (HC) standard errors — commonly called White standard errors. This leaves the point estimates unchanged while yielding valid t-statistics and confidence intervals even when the error variance is not constant across observations.