diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/commons/math/stat/regression/AbstractMultipleLinearRegression.java b/src/java/org/apache/commons/math/stat/regression/AbstractMultipleLinearRegression.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6e00c3603
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/commons/math/stat/regression/AbstractMultipleLinearRegression.java
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.commons.math.stat.regression;
+
+import org.apache.commons.math.linear.RealMatrix;
+import org.apache.commons.math.linear.RealMatrixImpl;
+
+/**
+ * Abstract base class for implementations of MultipleLinearRegression.
+ */
+public abstract class AbstractMultipleLinearRegression implements
+        MultipleLinearRegression {
+
+    protected RealMatrix X;
+    protected RealMatrix Y;
+
+    /**
+     * Adds y sample data.
+     * 
+     * @param y the [n,1] array representing the y sample
+     */
+    protected void addYSampleData(double[] y){
+        this.Y = new RealMatrixImpl(y);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Adds x sample data.
+     * 
+     * @param x the [n,k] array representing the x sample
+     */
+    protected void addXSampleData(double[][] x){
+        this.X = new RealMatrixImpl(x);
+    }
+
+    public double[] estimateRegressionParameters(){
+        RealMatrix b = calculateBeta();
+        return b.getColumn(0);
+    }    
+    
+    public double[] estimateResiduals(){
+        RealMatrix b = calculateBeta();
+        RealMatrix e = Y.subtract(X.multiply(b));
+        return e.getColumn(0);
+    }
+    
+    public double[][] estimateRegressionParametersVariance() {
+        return calculateBetaVariance().getData();
+    }
+
+    public double estimateRegressandVariance() {
+        return calculateYVariance();
+    }
+    
+    /**
+     * Calculates the beta of multiple linear regression in matrix notation.
+     */
+    protected abstract RealMatrix calculateBeta();    
+    
+    /**
+     * Calculates the beta variance of multiple linear regression in matrix notation.
+     */
+    protected abstract RealMatrix calculateBetaVariance();
+    
+    /**
+     * Calculates the Y variance of multiple linear regression.
+     */
+    protected abstract double calculateYVariance();
+
+    /**
+     * Calculates the residuals of multiple linear regression in matrix notation.
+     * <pre>
+     * u = y - X*b
+     * </pre>
+     * 
+     * @return The residuals [n,1] matrix 
+     */
+    protected RealMatrix calculateResiduals() {
+        RealMatrix b = calculateBeta();
+        return Y.subtract(X.multiply(b));
+    }
+    
+}
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/commons/math/stat/regression/GLSMultipleLinearRegression.java b/src/java/org/apache/commons/math/stat/regression/GLSMultipleLinearRegression.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5d6072540
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/commons/math/stat/regression/GLSMultipleLinearRegression.java
@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.commons.math.stat.regression;
+
+import org.apache.commons.math.linear.RealMatrix;
+import org.apache.commons.math.linear.RealMatrixImpl;
+
+
+/**
+ * The GLS implementation of the multiple linear regression.
+ * 
+ * GLS assumes a general covariance matrix Omega of the error
+ * <pre>
+ * u ~ N(0, Omega)
+ * </pre>
+ * 
+ * Estimated by GLS, 
+ * <pre>
+ * b=(X' Omega^-1 X)^-1X'Omega^-1 y
+ * </pre>
+ * whose variance is
+ * <pre>
+ * Var(b)=(X' Omega^-1 X)^-1
+ * </pre>
+ */
+public class GLSMultipleLinearRegression extends AbstractMultipleLinearRegression {
+    
+    private RealMatrix Omega;
+    
+
+    public void addData(double[] y, double[][] x, double[][] covariance) {
+        addYSampleData(y);
+        addXSampleData(x);
+        addCovarianceData(covariance);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Add the covariance data.
+     * 
+     * @param omega the [n,n] array representing the covariance
+     */
+    protected void addCovarianceData(double[][] omega){
+        this.Omega = new RealMatrixImpl(omega);
+    }
+    
+    /**
+     * Calculates beta by GLS.
+     * <pre>
+     *  b=(X' Omega^-1 X)^-1X'Omega^-1 y
+     * </pre> 
+     */
+    protected RealMatrix calculateBeta() {
+        RealMatrix OI = Omega.inverse();
+        RealMatrix XT = X.transpose();
+        RealMatrix XTOIX = XT.multiply(OI).multiply(X);
+        return XTOIX.inverse().multiply(XT).multiply(OI).multiply(Y);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Calculates the variance on the beta by GLS.
+     * <pre>
+     *  Var(b)=(X' Omega^-1 X)^-1
+     * </pre>
+     * @return The beta variance matrix
+     */
+    protected RealMatrix calculateBetaVariance() {
+        RealMatrix XTOIX = X.transpose().multiply(Omega.inverse()).multiply(X);
+        return XTOIX.inverse();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Calculates the variance on the y by GLS.
+     * <pre>
+     *  Var(y)=Tr(u' Omega^-1 u)/(n-k)
+     * </pre>
+     * @return The Y variance
+     */
+    protected double calculateYVariance() {
+        RealMatrix u = calculateResiduals();
+        RealMatrix sse =  u.transpose().multiply(Omega.inverse()).multiply(u);
+        return sse.getTrace()/(X.getRowDimension()-X.getColumnDimension());
+    }
+    
+}
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/commons/math/stat/regression/MultipleLinearRegression.java b/src/java/org/apache/commons/math/stat/regression/MultipleLinearRegression.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8da6be209
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/commons/math/stat/regression/MultipleLinearRegression.java
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.commons.math.stat.regression;
+
+/**
+ * The multiple linear regression can be represented in matrix-notation.
+ * <pre>
+ *  y=X*b+u
+ * </pre>
+ * where y is an <code>n-vector</code> <b>regressand</b>, X is a <code>[n,k]</code> matrix whose <code>k</code> columns are called
+ * <b>regressors</b>, b is <code>k-vector</code> of <b>regression parameters</b> and <code>u</code> is an <code>n-vector</code>
+ * of <b>error terms</b> or <b>residuals</b>.
+ * 
+ * The notation is quite standard in literature, 
+ * cf eg <a href="http://www.econ.queensu.ca/ETM">Davidson and MacKinnon, Econometrics Theory and Methods, 2004</a>.
+ */
+public interface MultipleLinearRegression {
+
+    /**
+     * Adds sample and covariance data.
+     * 
+     * @param y the [n,1] array representing the y sample
+     * @param x the [n,k] array representing x sample
+     * @param covariance the [n,n] array representing the covariance matrix or <code>null</code> if not appropriate for the
+     *          specific implementation
+     */
+    void addData(double[] y, double[][] x, double[][] covariance);
+
+    /**
+     * Estimates the regression parameters b.
+     * 
+     * @return The [k,1] array representing b
+     */
+    double[] estimateRegressionParameters();
+
+    /**
+     * Estimates the variance of the regression parameters, ie Var(b).
+     * 
+     * @return The [k,k] array representing the variance of b
+     */
+    double[][] estimateRegressionParametersVariance();
+    
+    /**
+     * Estimates the residuals, ie u = y - X*b.
+     * 
+     * @return The [n,1] array representing the residuals
+     */
+    double[] estimateResiduals();
+    
+    /**
+     * Returns the variance of the regressand, ie Var(y).
+     * 
+     * @return The double representing the variance of y
+     */
+    double estimateRegressandVariance();
+
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/commons/math/stat/regression/OLSMultipleLinearRegression.java b/src/java/org/apache/commons/math/stat/regression/OLSMultipleLinearRegression.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9b533c30e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/commons/math/stat/regression/OLSMultipleLinearRegression.java
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.commons.math.stat.regression;
+
+import org.apache.commons.math.linear.RealMatrix;
+
+
+/**
+ * The OLS implementation of the multiple linear regression.
+ * 
+ * OLS assumes the covariance matrix of the error to be diagonal and with equal variance.
+ * <pre>
+ * u ~ N(0, sigma^2*I)
+ * </pre>
+ * 
+ * Estimated by OLS, 
+ * <pre>
+ * b=(X'X)^-1X'y
+ * </pre>
+ * whose variance is
+ * <pre>
+ * Var(b)=MSE*(X'X)^-1, MSE=u'u/(n-k)
+ * </pre>
+ */
+public class OLSMultipleLinearRegression extends AbstractMultipleLinearRegression {
+    
+
+    public void addData(double[] y, double[][] x, double[][] covariance) {
+        addYSampleData(y);
+        addXSampleData(x);
+    }
+    
+    /**
+     * Calculates beta by OLS.
+     * <pre>
+     * b=(X'X)^-1X'y
+     * </pre> 
+     */
+    protected RealMatrix calculateBeta() {
+        RealMatrix XTX = X.transpose().multiply(X);
+        return XTX.inverse().multiply(X.transpose()).multiply(Y);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Calculates the variance on the beta by OLS.
+     * <pre>
+     *  Var(b)=(X'X)^-1
+     * </pre>
+     * @return The beta variance
+     */
+    protected RealMatrix calculateBetaVariance() {
+        RealMatrix XTX = X.transpose().multiply(X);
+        return XTX.inverse();
+    }
+    
+
+    /**
+     * Calculates the variance on the Y by OLS.
+     * <pre>
+     *  Var(y)=Tr(u'u)/(n-k)
+     * </pre>
+     * @return The Y variance
+     */
+    protected double calculateYVariance() {
+        RealMatrix u = calculateResiduals();
+        RealMatrix sse = u.transpose().multiply(u);
+        return sse.getTrace()/(X.getRowDimension()-X.getColumnDimension());
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/src/site/xdoc/changes.xml b/src/site/xdoc/changes.xml
index c16d2c23e..7b8d68376 100644
--- a/src/site/xdoc/changes.xml
+++ b/src/site/xdoc/changes.xml
@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ The <action> type attribute can be add,update,fix,remove.
   </properties>
   <body>
     <release version="2.0" date="TBD" description="TBD">
+      <action dev="luc" type="add" issue="MATH-203" due-to="Mauro Talevi">
+        Added Mauro's patch to support multiple regression.
+      </action>
       <action dev="luc" type="update" >
         Starting with version 2.0 of the library, the minimal version of the Java
         platform required to compile and use commons-math is Java 5. This version
diff --git a/src/site/xdoc/tasks.xml b/src/site/xdoc/tasks.xml
index 6a884fd5d..abab6acd3 100644
--- a/src/site/xdoc/tasks.xml
+++ b/src/site/xdoc/tasks.xml
@@ -69,7 +69,6 @@
           <dd>
             <ul>
               <li>More inference methods</li>
-              <li>Multiple regression</li>
             </ul>
           </dd> 
           <dt>Linear Algebra</dt>
diff --git a/src/test/org/apache/commons/math/stat/regression/AbstractMultipleLinearRegressionTest.java b/src/test/org/apache/commons/math/stat/regression/AbstractMultipleLinearRegressionTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ff91a71e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/org/apache/commons/math/stat/regression/AbstractMultipleLinearRegressionTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.commons.math.stat.regression;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
+
+import org.junit.Before;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+
+public abstract class AbstractMultipleLinearRegressionTest {
+
+    private MultipleLinearRegression regression;
+
+    @Before
+    public void setUp(){
+        regression = createRegression();
+    }
+
+    protected abstract MultipleLinearRegression createRegression();
+    
+    protected abstract int getNumberOfRegressors();
+    
+    protected abstract int getSampleSize();
+
+    @Test
+    public void canEstimateRegressionParameters(){
+        double[] beta = regression.estimateRegressionParameters();        
+        assertEquals(getNumberOfRegressors(), beta.length);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void canEstimateResiduals(){
+        double[] e = regression.estimateResiduals();
+        assertEquals(getSampleSize(), e.length);
+    }
+    
+    @Test
+    public void canEstimateRegressionParametersVariance(){
+        double[][] variance = regression.estimateRegressionParametersVariance();
+        assertEquals(getNumberOfRegressors(), variance.length);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void canEstimateRegressandVariance(){
+        double variance = regression.estimateRegressandVariance();
+        assertTrue(variance > 0.0);
+    }   
+
+}
diff --git a/src/test/org/apache/commons/math/stat/regression/GLSMultipleLinearRegressionTest.java b/src/test/org/apache/commons/math/stat/regression/GLSMultipleLinearRegressionTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3b4ac0969
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/org/apache/commons/math/stat/regression/GLSMultipleLinearRegressionTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.commons.math.stat.regression;
+
+import org.junit.Before;
+
+public class GLSMultipleLinearRegressionTest extends AbstractMultipleLinearRegressionTest {
+
+    private double[] y;
+    private double[][] x;
+    private double[][] omega;
+
+    @Before
+    public void setUp(){
+        y = new double[]{11.0, 12.0, 13.0, 14.0, 15.0, 16.0};
+        x = new double[6][];
+        x[0] = new double[]{1.0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0};
+        x[1] = new double[]{1.0, 2.0, 0, 0, 0, 0};
+        x[2] = new double[]{1.0, 0, 3.0, 0, 0, 0};
+        x[3] = new double[]{1.0, 0, 0, 4.0, 0, 0};
+        x[4] = new double[]{1.0, 0, 0, 0, 5.0, 0};
+        x[5] = new double[]{1.0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 6.0};
+        omega = new double[6][];
+        omega[0] = new double[]{1.0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0};
+        omega[1] = new double[]{0, 2.0, 0, 0, 0, 0};
+        omega[2] = new double[]{0, 0, 3.0, 0, 0, 0};
+        omega[3] = new double[]{0, 0, 0, 4.0, 0, 0};
+        omega[4] = new double[]{0, 0, 0, 0, 5.0, 0};
+        omega[5] = new double[]{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 6.0};
+        super.setUp();
+    }
+   
+    protected MultipleLinearRegression createRegression() {
+        MultipleLinearRegression regression = new GLSMultipleLinearRegression();
+        regression.addData(y, x, omega);
+        return regression;
+    }
+
+    protected int getNumberOfRegressors() {
+        return x[0].length;
+    }
+
+    protected int getSampleSize() {
+        return y.length;
+    }
+    
+}
diff --git a/src/test/org/apache/commons/math/stat/regression/OLSMultipleLinearRegressionTest.java b/src/test/org/apache/commons/math/stat/regression/OLSMultipleLinearRegressionTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..76f4d96d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/org/apache/commons/math/stat/regression/OLSMultipleLinearRegressionTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.commons.math.stat.regression;
+
+import org.junit.Before;
+
+public class OLSMultipleLinearRegressionTest extends AbstractMultipleLinearRegressionTest {
+
+    private double[] y;
+    private double[][] x;
+    
+    @Before
+    public void setUp(){
+        y = new double[]{11.0, 12.0, 13.0, 14.0, 15.0, 16.0};
+        x = new double[6][];
+        x[0] = new double[]{1.0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0};
+        x[1] = new double[]{1.0, 2.0, 0, 0, 0, 0};
+        x[2] = new double[]{1.0, 0, 3.0, 0, 0, 0};
+        x[3] = new double[]{1.0, 0, 0, 4.0, 0, 0};
+        x[4] = new double[]{1.0, 0, 0, 0, 5.0, 0};
+        x[5] = new double[]{1.0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 6.0};
+        super.setUp();
+    }
+
+    protected MultipleLinearRegression createRegression() {
+        MultipleLinearRegression regression = new OLSMultipleLinearRegression();
+        regression.addData(y, x, null);
+        return regression;
+    }
+
+    protected int getNumberOfRegressors() {
+        return x[0].length;
+    }
+
+    protected int getSampleSize() {
+        return y.length;
+    }
+
+}