“…The ridge regression approach has been studied by Hoerl and Kennard (1970), McDonald and Galarneau (1975), Gibbons (1981), Saleh and Kibria (1993), Liu (1993Liu ( , 2003, Akdeniz and Kaciranlar (1995), Kaciranlar et al (1999Kaciranlar et al ( , 2011, Akdeniz and Erol (2003), Downloaded by [University of Otago] at 19:32 29 July 2015 Kibria (2003), Kibria and Saleh (2004), Zhong and Yang (2007), Xu (2009), Yang et al (2009), Akdeniz and Akdeniz Duran (2010), Mansson et al (2010), Li and Yang (2011), and Akdeniz Duran and Akdeniz (2012) to mention a few.…”