wald_betas: Wald tests on the _beta_ coefficients
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wald_betas

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Wald tests on the beta coefficients

Description

The function wald_betas can be seen as a complement to the restricted estimation procedures included in the functions spsurml and spsur3sls. wald_betas obtains Wald tests for sets of linear restrictions on the coefficients β of the SUR model. The restrictions may involve coefficients of the same equation or coefficients from different equations. The function has great flexibility in this respect. Note that wald_betas is more general than lr_betas in the sense that the last function only allows to test for restrictions of homogeneity of subsets of β coefficients among the different equations in the SUR model, and in a maximum-likelihood framework.

In order to work with wald_betas, the model on which the linear restrictions are to be tested needs to exists as an spsur object. Using the information contained in the object, wald_betas obtains the corresponding Wald estatistic for the null hypotheses specified by the user through the R row vector and b column vector, used also in spsurml and spsur3sls. The function shows the value of the Wald test statistics and its associated p-values.

Usage

wald_betas (obj , R , b)

Arguments

`obj`	An `spsur` object created by `spsurml`, `spsur3sls` or `spsurtime`.
`R`	A row vector of order (1xPr) showing the set of r linear constraints on the β parameters. The first restriction appears in the first K terms in R, the second restriction in the next K terms and so on.
`b`	A column vector of order (rx1) with the values of the linear restrictions on the β parameters.

Value

Object of htest class including the Wald statistic, the corresponding p-value, the degrees of freedom and the values of the sample estimates.

Author(s)

Fernando Lopez	fernando.lopez@upct.es
Roman Minguez	roman.minguez@uclm.es
Jesus Mur	jmur@unizar.es

References

Lopez, F.A., Mur, J., and Angulo, A. (2014). Spatial model selection strategies in a SUR framework. The case of regional productivity in EU. Annals of Regional Science, 53(1), 197-220. <doi:10.1007/s00168-014-0624-2>
Mur, J., Lopez, F., and Herrera, M. (2010). Testing for spatial effects in seemingly unrelated regressions. Spatial Economic Analysis, 5(4), 399-440. <doi:10.1080/17421772.2010.516443>
Anselin, L. (2016) Estimation and Testing in the Spatial Seemingly Unrelated Regression (SUR). Geoda Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University. Working Paper 2016-01. <doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.15925.40163>
Minguez, R., Lopez, F.A. and Mur, J. (2022). spsur: An R Package for Dealing with Spatial Seemingly Unrelated Regression Models. Journal of Statistical Software, 104(11), 1–43. <doi:10.18637/jss.v104.i11>

Examples

## VIP: The output of the whole set of the examples can be examined 
## by executing demo(demo_wald_betas, package="spsur")

#################################################
######## CROSS SECTION DATA (G=1; Tm>1) ########
#################################################

##### Example 1: Spatial Phillips-Curve. Anselin (1988, p. 203)
rm(list = ls()) # Clean memory
data(spc)
lwspc <- spdep::mat2listw(Wspc, style = "W")
Tformula <- WAGE83 | WAGE81 ~ UN83 + NMR83 + SMSA | UN80 + NMR80 + SMSA
### Estimate SUR-SLM model
spcsur.slm <- spsurml(formula = Tformula, data = spc, 
                      type = "slm", listw = lwspc)
summary(spcsur.slm)
### H_0: equality between SMSA coefficients in both equations.
R1 <- matrix(c(0,0,0,1,0,0,0,-1), nrow=1)
b1 <- matrix(0, ncol=1)

wald_betas(spcsur.slm, R = R1, b = b1)

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