A new accurate regression: Overcoming the specification error

Moawia Alghalith

doi:10.2478/bile-2025-0009

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A new accurate regression: Overcoming the specification error

Biometrical Letters

Volume 62 (2025): Issue 2 (December 2025)

By: Moawia Alghalith

Open Access

|Dec 2025

Abstract

We develop a simple method that virtually eliminates the regression specification error and spurious relationships. Furthermore, we introduce a strong (real) causality test.

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