Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/149685 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
CHOPE Working Paper No. 2012-03
Publisher: 
Duke University, Center for the History of Political Economy (CHOPE), Durham, NC
Abstract: 
The paper is a keynote lecture from the Tilburg-Madrid Conference on Hypothesis Tests: Foundations and Applications at the Universidad Nacional de EducaciĆ³n a Distancia (UNED) Madrid, Spain, 15-16 December 2011. It addresses the role of tests of statistical hypotheses (specification tests) in selection of a statistically admissible model in which to evaluate economic hypotheses. The issue is formulated in the context of recent philosophical accounts on the nature of models and related to some results in the literature on specification search.
Subjects: 
statistical testing
hypothesis tests
models
general-to-specific specification search
optional stopping
severe tests
costs of search
costs of inference
extreme-bounds analysis
LSE econometric methodology
JEL: 
B41
C18
C12
C50
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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