Simulated Classical Tests in the Multiperiod Multinomial Probit Model

30 Pages Posted: 31 Jul 2002

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Andreas Ziegler

Center for European Economic Research (ZEW)

Date Written: June 10, 2002

Abstract

This paper compares different versions of the simulated counterparts of the Wald test, the score test, and the likelihood ratio test in the multiperiod multinomial probit model. Monte Carlo experiments show that the simple form of the simulated likelihood ratio test delivers the most favorable test results in the five-period three-alternative probit model considered here. This result applies to the deviation of the frequency of type I errors from the given significance levels as well as to the frequency of type II errors. In contrast, the inclusion of the quasi maximum likelihood theory into the simulated likelihood ratio test leads to substantial computational problems. The combination of this theory with the simulated Wald test or the simulated score test also produces no general advantages over the other versions of these two simulated classical tests. Neither an increase in the number of observations nor a rise in the number of random draws in the considered GHK simulator systematically lead to a more precise conformity between the frequency of type I errors and the basic significance levels. An increase in the number of observations merely reduces the frequency of type II errors.

Keywords: Simulated classical tests, multiperiod multinomial probit model, Monte Carlo, simulation

JEL Classification: C12, C15, C25

Suggested Citation

Ziegler, Andreas, Simulated Classical Tests in the Multiperiod Multinomial Probit Model (June 10, 2002). ZEW Discussion Paper No. 02-38, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=318942 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.318942

Andreas Ziegler (Contact Author)

Center for European Economic Research (ZEW) ( email )

P.O. Box 10 34 43
L 7,1 D-68161 Mannheim
Germany

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