If Xit is correlated with Xis for different values of s and t, then

A) Xit is said to be autocorrelated
B) the OLS estimator cannot be computed
C) statistical inference cannot proceed in a standard way even if clustered standard errors are used
D) this is not of practical importance since these correlations are typically weak in applications


Answer: A

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