Nonparametric significance testing

Pascal Lavergne and Quang Vuong

No 1998,75, SFB 373 Discussion Papers from Humboldt University of Berlin, Interdisciplinary Research Project 373: Quantification and Simulation of Economic Processes

Abstract: A procedure for testing the signicance of a subset of explanatory variables in a nonparametric regression is proposed. Our test statistic uses the kernel method. Under the null hypothesis of no effect of the variables under test, we show that our test statistic has a nhp2/2 standard normal limiting distribution, where p2 is the dimension of the complete set of regressors. Our test is one-sided, consistent against all alternatives and detect local alternatives approaching the null at rate slower than n-1/2 h-p2/4. Our Monte-Carlo experiments indicate that it outperforms the test proposed by Fan and Li (1996).

Keywords: Hypothesis testing; Kernel estimation; Nested models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 C52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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