Testing competing models for non-negative data with many zeros

DOI10.1515/JEM-2013-0005MaRDI QIDQ312340zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors João M. C. Santos Silva, Silvana Tenreyro, Frank Windmeijer

Publication date 15 September 2016

Published in Journal of Econometric Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/63663/

zbMATH Keywords

non-nested hypothesesinternational trade\(C\) test\(P\) testhealth economics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametric hypothesis testing (62F03) Applications of statistics to economics (62P20)

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