Cochrane–Orcutt estimation is a procedure in econometrics, which adjusts a linear model for serial correlation in the error term. It is named after statisticians Donald Cochrane and Guy Orcutt.
Consider the model
where is the value of the dependent variable of interest at time t, is a column vector of coefficients to be estimated, is a row vector of explanatory variables at time t, and is the error term at time t.