quant: detecting heteroskedasticity

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one way is residual scatter plots (residual vs. independent variable)
which kind of the pattern from the plot we could conclude that there is heteroskedasticity? Thanks.
 
What your equation predicts and what actual data look like make up the serial correlation case. So if the plot shows actual data points clusterd above or below the predicted line from the regression, with or without patter, it indicates serial correlation.
Heroskedasticity is the variance of the error term, that is how the errors (predicted minus actual) vary around their own mean. They should show consistent yet random variation. Residual vs. independent variable, as you say, helps with serial correlation, but not directly helpful for heteroskedasticity…however, check with some quant heads, they may know better.
 
Page 122 Schweser Slidebook/video has a great graph.
If you don’t have the book. Imagine the plot against the line. The left side vs the right side of graph look different. One is closer to the line, the other is further from the line. Schweser drew two circle around the error terms, one circle was significantly bigger than other. Hence the variance of the error terms are not consistent.
 
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I’ve got stories for all the silly things we have to memorize on this stupid test.
 
Joking aside, if you get no regression chart then you can detect heteroskedasticity with breusch pagan test.
 
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Atomicrooster…. you have permission to post the post as evidence why you never should post anything that involves, politics, religion, sexual orientation, etc ever any time. A quick submit is too easy to say something stupid…. to think I thought avoiding twitter was enough.
 
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