CONSIDERATIONS ON THE VALIDITY AND APPLICABILITY OF THE UEK METHOD

In Popławski and Kaczmarczyk (2013) a method referred to as UEK was presented and used as a tool in the analysis of sustainable rural development. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the methodological inappropriateness of that method. In the linear regression model, the matrix of explanator...

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Main Authors: Anna Pajor, Barbara Kawa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Life Sciences in Poznań 2019-07-01
Series:Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development
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Online Access:http://www1.up.poznan.pl/jard/index.php/jard/article/view/1254
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Summary:In Popławski and Kaczmarczyk (2013) a method referred to as UEK was presented and used as a tool in the analysis of sustainable rural development. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the methodological inappropriateness of that method. In the linear regression model, the matrix of explanatory variables can have either less than full or full column rank. While all regression parameters are non-estimable in the first case, the well-known and widely used ordinary least squares method can be applied in the second one.
ISSN:1899-5241
1899-5772