FoundationMultiple choice
In an OLS regression with an intercept, which statement about the residuals always holds, whatever the data?
- AThey are normally distributed, because OLS assumes normal errors
- BThey sum to zero and are orthogonal to every regressor
- CThey are independent of each other
- DTheir variance equals the true error variance
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