Krahasoni metodat

	Structural Break WLS	Diferencat më të Vogla të Peshuara (WLS)
Fusha	Ekonometri	Statistikë
Familja	Regression model	Regression model
Viti i origjinës	1998 (break framework); WLS long-established	1935
Krijuesi	Bai & Perron (structural break framework); WLS classical	Alexander Craig Aitken
Lloji	Weighted regression with regime shifts	Weighted linear estimator
Burimi themelues	Bai, J., & Perron, P. (1998). Estimating and testing linear models with multiple structural changes. Econometrica, 66(1), 47-78.	Aitken, A. C. (1935). IV.—On least squares and linear combination of observations. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 55, 42–48.
Emërtime të tjera	WLS with structural change, break-corrected WLS, segmented WLS, structural break weighted regression	WLS, weighted regression, heteroscedasticity-corrected OLS, variance-weighted least squares
Të lidhura	5	3
Përmbledhja	Structural Break WLS combines Weighted Least Squares estimation with explicit detection and correction for structural breaks — abrupt regime shifts — in the data. By identifying break points and assigning observation-level weights that account for heteroscedasticity within and across regimes, the estimator delivers consistent, efficient coefficient estimates even when the error variance changes dramatically at a break.	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.