st: RE: sum of residuals=zero?

["Nick Cox" <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

Giovanni Vecchi
 
> The sum of residuals (which should be zero according to the 
> theory) is
> -.0004654. This estimates looks "high" to me.
> I run the code above in Gauss and obtained a much lower estimates
> (something like 9*10^-10).

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Nick 
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