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A Primer for Unit Root TestingSome Examples of Unit Root Tests

A Primer for Unit Root Testing: Some Examples of Unit Root Tests [It is not the intention in this chapter to provide a comprehensive review of unit root tests; that would be a task far more substantial than space allows. Rather, the idea is to introduce some tests that link in with developments in earlier chapters. Examples are given of two types of test: parametric and nonparametric. In the former case, probably the most frequently applied test is a version of the standard t test due to Dickey-Fuller (DF) tests, usually referred to as a τ test. This is a pseudo-t test in the sense that whilst it is constructed on the same general principle as at test, it does not have at distribution under the null hypothesis of a unit root. A closely related test is the coefficient or normalised bias test, referred to here as a δ test, which is just T times the numerator of the pseudo-t statistic. Whilst the 8 test is generally more powerful than the τ test, it is not so stable when the error process in the underlying model has a serially correlated structure, and is not so widely used as the τ test.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Primer for Unit Root TestingSome Examples of Unit Root Tests

Part of the Palgrave Texts in Econometrics Book Series
Patterson, Kerry
Springer Journals — Nov 12, 2015
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Palgrave Macmillan UK
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010
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978-1-4039-0205-4
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205 –257
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10.1057/9780230248458_8
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[It is not the intention in this chapter to provide a comprehensive review of unit root tests; that would be a task far more substantial than space allows. Rather, the idea is to introduce some tests that link in with developments in earlier chapters. Examples are given of two types of test: parametric and nonparametric. In the former case, probably the most frequently applied test is a version of the standard t test due to Dickey-Fuller (DF) tests, usually referred to as a τ test. This is a pseudo-t test in the sense that whilst it is constructed on the same general principle as at test, it does not have at distribution under the null hypothesis of a unit root. A closely related test is the coefficient or normalised bias test, referred to here as a δ test, which is just T times the numerator of the pseudo-t statistic. Whilst the 8 test is generally more powerful than the τ test, it is not so stable when the error process in the underlying model has a serially correlated structure, and is not so widely used as the τ test.]

Published: Nov 12, 2015

Keywords: Random Walk; Unit Root; Unit Root Test; Generalise Little Square; Unconditional Distribution

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