Abstract

Multicollinearity is a common problem in linear regression models when two or more regressors are highly correlated, which yields some serious problems for the ordinary least square estimates of the parameters as well as model validation and interpretation. In this paper, first the problem of multicollinearity and its subsequent effects on the linear regression along with some important measures for detecting multicollinearity is reviewed, then the role of eigenvalues and eigenvectors in detecting multicollinearity are bolded. At the end a real data set is evaluated for which the fitted linear regression models is investigated for multicollinearity diagnostics.