Statistical models of unobserved heterogeneity are typically formalized as mixtures of simple parametric models and interest naturally focuses on testing for homogeneity versus general mixture alternatives. Many tests of this type can be interpreted as C(») tests, as in Neyman (1959), and shown...

Statistical models of unobserved heterogeneity are typically formalized as mix- tures of simple parametric models and interest naturally focuses on testing for homogeneity versus general mixture alternatives. Many tests of this type can be interpreted as C(») tests, as in Neyman (1959), and...