The coefficient of determination (R2) is used for judging the goodness of fit in a linear regression model. It is the square of the multiple correlation coefficient between the study and explanatory variables based on the sample values. It gives valid results only when the observations are...

This paper considers the estimation of the parameters of measurement error models where the estimated covariance matrix of the regression parameters is ill conditioned. We consider the Hoerl and Kennard type (1970) ridge regression (RR) modifications of the five quasi-empirical Bayes estimators...