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a. a linear transformation of a model does not change the model and should not change the estimates of a model. b. Since high intercorrelations among variables can simply be transformed into low variances on linear combinations of variables, multicollinearity is itself not a fundamental measure of the strength of the data. c. . ... ridge regression's ... weakness ... is the use of a loose representation of a priori beliefs and the reliance at times on ad hoc pseudoinformation.
Donald W. Marquardt (Sat,) studied this question.