robust wald test

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robust wald test

Postby pat123123 » Thu Jul 01, 2010 2:46 pm

I am using Eviews 6. I want to know whether the programmed Wald test of a subset of coefficients is valid if using Newey-West robust estimation. The User's Guide seems to suggest otherwise, but I read a forum discussion that seemed to indicate that the Wald test is also robust. If it is not robust in Eviews 6, is it robust in Eviews 7. Thanks.

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Re: robust wald test

Postby EViews Gareth » Thu Jul 01, 2010 2:58 pm

The Wald test in EViews uses the equation's estimated standard errors. Thus if you estimate the equation using robust standard errors, then those will be used by the Wald test.

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Re: robust wald test

Postby EViews Gareth » Thu Jul 01, 2010 2:58 pm

The Wald test in EViews uses the equation's estimated standard errors. Thus if you estimate the equation using robust standard errors, then those will be used by the Wald test.

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Re: robust wald test

Postby pat123123 » Sat Jul 03, 2010 8:23 am

thanks for you reply


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