Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: de Boer, P.M.C. Author-Name-Last: de Boer Author-Name-First: Paul Author-Name: Hafner, C.M. Author-Name-Last: Hafner Author-Name-First: Christian Author-Person: pha77 Title: Ridge regression revisited Abstract: We argue in this paper that general ridge (GR) regression implies no major complication compared with simple ridge regression. We introduce a generalization of an explicit GR estimator derived by Hemmerle and by Teekens and de Boer and show that this estimator, which is more conservative, performs better than the Hoerl and Kennard estimator in terms of a weighted quadratic loss criterion. Creation-Date: 2005-08-31 File-URL: https://repub.eur.nl/pub/6919/ei200529.pdf File-Format: application/pdf Series: RePEc:ems:eureir Number: EI 2005-29 Keywords: MSE performance, general ridge estimator Handle: RePEc:ems:eureir:6919