השוואת שיטות

	ריבועים פחותים משוקללים (WLS)	מבחן וייט לבחינת הטרוסקדסטיות
תחום	סטטיסטיקה	אקונומטריקה
משפחה	Regression model	Regression model
שנת המקור	1935	1980
הוגה השיטה	Alexander Craig Aitken	Halbert White
סוג	Weighted linear estimator	General test for heteroskedasticity
מקור מכונן	Aitken, A. C. (1935). IV.—On least squares and linear combination of observations. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 55, 42–48.	White, H. (1980). A heteroskedasticity-consistent covariance matrix estimator and a direct test for heteroskedasticity. Econometrica, 48(4), 817–838.
כינויים	WLS, weighted regression, heteroscedasticity-corrected OLS, variance-weighted least squares	White's general heteroskedasticity test, White değişen varyans testi
קשורות	3	3
תקציר	Weighted Least Squares is a generalization of Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression that assigns each observation a weight inversely proportional to its error variance, thereby down-weighting high-variance data points and up-weighting precise ones. Introduced in its general matrix form by Alexander Craig Aitken in 1935, WLS is the canonical remedy when heteroscedasticity is present and the error variance structure is known or can be reliably estimated.	The White test, introduced by Halbert White in 1980, is a general test for heteroskedasticity that makes no assumption about its functional form. It regresses the squared OLS residuals on the regressors, their squares, and their cross-products, so it can detect heteroskedasticity related to any of these terms. The same 1980 paper introduced the heteroskedasticity-consistent ('White') standard errors that are the standard remedy when the test rejects.