Heteroscedasticity-consistent Standard Errors
The topic of heteroscedasticity-consistent (HC) standard errors arises in statistics and econometrics in the context of linear regression and also time series analysis. The alternative names of Huber–White standard errors, Eicker–White or Eicker–Huber–White are also frequently used in relation to the same ideas.
In regression and time-series modelling, basic forms of models make use of the assumption that the errors or disturbances ui have the same variance across all observation points. When this is not the case, the errors are said to be heteroscedastic, or to have heteroscedasticity, and this behaviour will be reflected in the residuals estimated from a fitted model. Heteroscedasticity-consistent standard errors are used to allow the fitting of a model that does contain heteroscedastic residuals. The first such approach was proposed by White (1980), and further improved procedures have been produced since for cross-sectional data, time-series data and GARCH estimation.
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