Classical Assumptions of OLS Linear Regression

  1. Regression model is linear in the coefficients and the error term
  2. Error term has a population mean of zero
  3. All independent variables are uncorrelated with the error term
  4. Observations of the error term are uncorrelated with each other
  5. The error term has a constant variance (no heteroskedasticity)
  6. No independent variable is a perfect linear function of other explanatory variables
  7. Error term is normally distributed