Linear Regression with OLS: Unbiased, Consistent, BLUE, Best (Efficient) Estimator

Understand OLS Linear Regression with a bit of math

Aaron Zhu
Towards Data Science
7 min readMay 25, 2022

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The OLS estimator is known to be unbiased, consistent and BLUE (Best Linear Unbiased Estimator). But what do these properties mean? Why are they important for a linear regression model? In this article, we will discuss these properties.

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