Nonnested Hypothesis Testing: An Overview

A Companion to Theoretical Econometrics

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 279-309

  Pesaran, Hashem M ^a   Weeks, Melvyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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