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Which assumption must hold for the OLS estimator to be unbiased (E[hatβ] = β)?

  1. The error term ε must have an expected value of zero (E[ε] = 0).
  2. The variance of the error terms must be constant (homoscedasticity).
  3. The sample size n must be infinitely large.
  4. The error terms must follow a standard normal distribution.

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