Wald and Lagrange Multiplier (LM) tests can be based on three commonly used estimators of the information matrix : the expectation of the Hessian matric, the Hessian matrix without the expectation operator or the outer product (OP) matrix of the score vectors. Although the Wald and LM tests are...

We test for the presence of long memory in daily stock returns and their squares using a robust semiparametric procedure. Spurious results can be produced by nonstationarity and aggregation.

Most hypotheses in binary response models are composite. The null hypothesis is usually that one or more slope coefficients are zero. Typically, the sequence of alternatives of interest is one in which the slope coefficients are increasing in absolute value. In this papar, we prove that the...

The finite sample distributions of estimators and test statistics in ARMA time series models are generally unknown. For typical sample sizes, the approximations provided by asymptotic distributions are often unsatisfactory. Hence simulation or numerical integration methods are used to...