Estimation of the term structure by linear regression
Suppose that the discount function can be expressed as the linear combination of the 
functions that are twice continuously differentiable functions as
where
We can estimate the weights 
by generalized least squares. We will discuss the choice of the functions later. The estimated discount function ...
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