Hypothesis testing in econometrics

Annual Review of Economics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 75-105

  Romano, Joseph P ^a   Shaikh, Azeem M ^b   Wolf, Michael ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Asymptotics; Multiple testing; Optimality; Resampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952597689     PISSN: 19411383     EISSN: 19411391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.economics.102308.124342     Document Type: Article

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