Moran-Flavored Tests with Nuisance Parameters: Examples
Moran-Flavored Tests with Nuisance Parameters: Examples
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10.1007/978-3-662-05617-2_3
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2004
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J. Pinkse
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Since Moran (1950b) originally proposed his test of correlation, many authors have investigated its properties under varying conditions. In this chapter I demonstrate how new technical results of Pinkse (1999) can be used to verify that the Moran test, or a cross-correlation variant thereof (see Box and Jenkins, 1976, for a detailed discussion of cross-correlation in time series models), indeed has a limiting normal distribution under the null hypothesis of independence. Many tests for spatial dependence are based on the Moran test statistic, or can be written in the form of a Moran-flavored test. A prime example of a test that often takes the form of a Moran-flavored test is the Lagrange Multiplier (LM) or score test (Burridge, 1980, made this observation). l A general discussion and many useful references can be found in Anselin (1988, 1997). Other authors who have explored LM tests in the context of spatial regression models are Anselin and Rey (1991), Anselin and Florax (1995c) and Anselin et al.(1996). Pinkse and Slade (1998) propose a simulation-based test in probit models. It is also possible to test for spatial independence nonparametrically. A nonparametric test of spatial independence rejects any alternative to the null hypothesis of spatial independence provided that the sample size is big enough. A nonparametric spatial independence test can be found in Brett and Pinkse (1997), which is based on a similar test for serial independence by Pinkse (1998). The vast literature on testing for spatial dependence further includes Anselin and Kelejian (1997), Kelejian and Robinson (1995), and King (1981). Cliff and Ord (1972, 1973, 1981) and Sen (1976) have studied the properties of the Moran test under fairly general conditions. Sen only studies the case where the variables whose correlation structure is being investigated are observed, although he deals with a minor nuisance parameter problem arising when the mean of these variables is unobserved. Cliff and Ord (1981) also consider the case in which the variables whose correlation is to be studied are errors in a linear regression model. They formally prove that the vector of nuisance parameters, in this case the vector of regression coefficients, does not affect the limiting distribution. The Moran test is used to detect the correlation between the same variable at different locations. Pinkse's (1999) test allows for the correlation to be tested between