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An Introduction to Econometric Theory
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An Introduction to Econometric Theory

by James Davidson
October 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
250 pages
12h 14m
English
Wiley
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14Asymptotic Estimation Theory

14.1 Large Sample Efficiency

The preceding chapter introduced the idea of estimators with desirable properties in large samples. These are estimators that are consistent and asymptotically normal, henceforth abbreviated to CAN. Least squares is a member of the CAN class under standard assumptions, and naturally enough, this raises the question of efficiency. An estimator is said to be asymptotically efficient in the CAN class if for any other CAN estimator, the difference of the asymptotic variance matrices is positive semidefinite. The term asymptotic variance here refers to a matrix such as images in (13.25), relating to the normalized error‐of‐estimate and hence well defined in the limit.

The comparison parallels that of the Gauss‐Markov theorem in Sections 8.2 and 12.5 except that in large samples the conditions for fixed and random regressors become in effect unified. For the regression model

let the linear CAN class be defined by

where images is a images random ...

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