Testing for Consistency Using Artificial Regressions

Russell Davidson and James MacKinnon

No 275208, Queen's Institute for Economic Research Discussion Papers from Queen's University - Department of Economics

Abstract: We consider several issues related to what Hausman [1978] called "specification tests", namely tests designed to verify the consistency of parameter estimates. We first review a number of results about these tests in linear regression models, and present some new material on their distribution when the model being tested is false, and on a simple way to improve their power in certain cases. We then show how in a general nonlinear setting they may be computed as "score" tests by means of slightly modified versions of any artificial linear regression that can be used to calculate Lagrange Multiplier tests, and explore some of the implications of this result. In particular, we show how to create a variant of the information matrix test that tests for parameter consistency. We examine both the conventional information matrix test and our new version in the context of binary choice models, and provide a simple way to compute both tests based on artificial regressions. Some Monte Carlo evidence is also presented; it suggests that the most common form of the information matrix test can be extremely badly behaved in samples of even quite large size.

Keywords: Financial Economics; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41
Date: 1987-07
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.275208

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