Combating Multicollinearity: A New Two-Parameter Approach

Abstract

The ordinary least square (OLS) estimator is the Best Linear Unbiased Estimator (BLUE) when all linear regression model assumptions are valid. The OLS estimator, however, becomes inefficient in the presence of multicollinearity. To circumvent the problem of multicollinearity, various one and two-parameter estimators have been proposed. This paper a new two-parameter estimator called Liu-Kibria Lukman Estimator (LKL) estimator. The theoretical and simulation results show that the proposed estimator performs better than some existing estimators considered in this study under some conditions, using the mean square error criterion. A real-life application to Portland cement and Longley datasets supported the theoretical and simulation results.