A Comparative Study of Alternative Estimators for Variance Components Models Used in Econometric Applications

G. S. Maddala, T.D. Mount

Journal of the American Statistical Association · 1973 · 80 citations · 8 references

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Abstract

Abstract The article investigates by means of Monte Carlo experiments the performance of the ML method, the MINQUE method and several other two-step Generalized Least Squares methods in estimating the slope coefficient in a variance components model. It concludes that in models with no lagged dependent variables there is nothing much to choose among these estimators.

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