Ans: D) are unbiased and consistent.
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no perfect multicollinearity), the OLS estimators for the slopes and intercept
A) have an exact normal distribution for n > 25.
B) are BLUE.
C) have a normal distribution in small samples as long as the errors are homoskedastic.
D) are unbiased and consistent.
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