***multicolinearity use longley_data.dta, clear reg employment military popsizeyear ntpri cesgnp essm if popsizeyear>=1947 & popsizeyear<=1961 reg employment military popsizeyear ntpri cesgnp essm if popsizeyear>=1947 & popsizeyear<=1962 ***in the second regression you are just including one additional observation ***notice how the coefficients chang between one regression and the other; also the high standard ***errors of some variables, regardless of a high R-squared ***this are clearly symptoms that assumption 2 is violated, i.e. X'X doesn't have full rank k