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metadata.dc.type: | Artigo de Periódico |
Título : | Improved heteroscedasticity‐consistent covariance matrix estimators |
Otros títulos : | Biometrika |
Autor : | Cribari Neto, Francisco Ferrari, Silvia L. P. Cordeiro, Gauss Moutinho |
metadata.dc.creator: | Cribari Neto, Francisco Ferrari, Silvia L. P. Cordeiro, Gauss Moutinho |
Resumen : | The heteroscedasticity‐consistent covariance matrix estimator proposed by White (1980) is commonly used in practical applications and is implemented into a number of pieces of statistical software. However, although consistent, it can display substantial bias in small to moderately large samples, as shown by Monte Carlo simulations elsewhere. This paper defines modified White estimators which are approximately bias‐free. Numerical results show that the modified estimators display much smaller bias than White's estimator in small samples. We also show that the bias correction leads to some variance inflation. In hypothesis testing based on heteroscedasticity‐consistent covariance matrix estimators, numerical results suggest that tests based on the proposed bias‐corrected estimators typically display smaller size distortions. |
Palabras clave : | Bias correction Covariance matrix estimation Heteroscedasticity Linear regressio |
URI : | http://www.repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/7805 |
Fecha de publicación : | 2000 |
Aparece en las colecciones: | Artigo Publicado em Periódico (IME) |
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