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We developed a novel method to address multicollinearity in linear models called average ordinary least squares (OLS)‐centered penalized regression (AOPR). AOPR penalizes the cost function to shrink the estimators toward the weighted‐average OLS estimator. The commonly used ridge regression (RR) shrinks the estimators toward zero, that is, employs penalization prior in the Bayesian view,...