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WEIGHTED AVERAGE POWER SIMILAR TESTS FOR STRUCTURAL CHANGE IN THE GAUSSIAN LINEAR REGRESSION MODEL

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2008

Giovanni Forchini
Giovanni Forchini*
Affiliation:
Monash University
*
Address correspondence to Giovanni Forchini, Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia; e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Average exponential F tests for structural change in a Gaussian linear regression model and modifications thereof maximize a weighted average power that incorporates specific weighting functions to make the resulting test statistics simple. Generalizations of these tests involve the numerical evaluation of (potentially) complicated integrals. In this paper, we suggest a uniform Laplace approximation to evaluate weighted average power test statistics for which a simple closed form does not exist. We also show that a modification of the avg-F test is optimal under a very large class of weighting functions and can be written as a ratio of quadratic forms so that both its p-values and critical values are easy to calculate using numerical algorithms.

Type
Research Article
Information
Econometric Theory , Volume 24 , Issue 5 , October 2008 , pp. 1277 - 1290
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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