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Small sample properties of alternative forms of the Lagrange Multiplier test

Economics LettersPublished 1 January 1983
Russel Davidson, James G. MacKinnon
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Abstract

We argue that alternative forms of the LM test may perform very differently in small samples. One common variant often yields misleading inferences, while an alternative variant, which we have recently proposed, performs much better.

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