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1999

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Testing When A Parameter Is On The Boundary Of The Maintained Hypothesis, Donald W.K. Andrews Jul 1999

Testing When A Parameter Is On The Boundary Of The Maintained Hypothesis, Donald W.K. Andrews

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

This paper considers testing problems where several of the standard regularity conditions fail to hold. We consider the case where (i) parameter vectors in the null hypothesis may lie on the boundary of the maintained hypothesis and (ii) there may be a nuisance parameter that appears under the alternative hypothesis, but not under the null. The paper establishes the asymptotic null and local alternative distributions of quasi-likelihood ratio, rescaled quasi-likelihood ratio, Wald, and score tests in this case. The results apply to tests based on a wide variety of extremum estimators and apply to a wide variety of models. Examples …


Higher-Order Improvements Of A Computationally Attractive K-Step Bootstrap For Extremum Estimators, Donald W.K. Andrews Jul 1999

Higher-Order Improvements Of A Computationally Attractive K-Step Bootstrap For Extremum Estimators, Donald W.K. Andrews

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

This paper establishes the higher-order equivalence of the k -step bootstrap, introduced recently by Davidson and MacKinnon (1999a), and the standard bootstrap. The k -step bootstrap is a very attractive alternative computationally to the standard bootstrap for statistics based on nonlinear extremum estimators, such as generalized method of moment and maximum likelihood estimators. The paper also extends results of Hall and Horowitz (1996) to provide new results regarding the higher-order improvements of the standard bootstrap and the k -step bootstrap for extremum estimators (compared to procedures based on first-order asymptotics). The results of the paper apply to Newton-Raphson (NR), default …


Higher-Order Improvements Of A Computationally Attractive K-Step Bootstrap For Extremum Estimators, Donald W.K. Andrews Jul 1999

Higher-Order Improvements Of A Computationally Attractive K-Step Bootstrap For Extremum Estimators, Donald W.K. Andrews

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

This paper establishes the higher-order equivalence of the k -step bootstrap, introduced recently by Davidson and MacKinnon (1999a), and the standard bootstrap. The k -step bootstrap is a very attractive alternative computationally to the standard bootstrap for statistics based on nonlinear extremum estimators, such as generalized method of moment and maximum likelihood estimators. The paper also extends results of Hall and Horowitz (1996) to provide new results regarding the higher-order improvements of the standard bootstrap and the k -step bootstrap for extremum estimators (compared to procedures based on first-order asymptotics). The results of the paper apply to Newton-Raphson (NR), default …