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that λ = 0, see Breusch and Pagan (1980). This LM statistic should be asymptotically
distributed as Â
12 under H0b as N ! 1; for a given T . But this LM test has the problem
that the alternative hypothesis is assumed to be two-sided when we know that the variance
component cannot be negative. Honda (1985) suggested a uniformly most powerful test for
H
0b based upon the square root of the G2 term, i.e.,

nt I NT „

(2.12)


LMι — —-.------ G:

1 y 2(T - 1)

This should be asymptotically distributed as N(0,1) under H0 as N ! 1; for T fixed.
Moulton and Randolph(1989) showed that the asymptotic N(0,1) approximation for this
one sided LM test can be poor even in large samples. This occurs when the number of
regressors is large or the intra-class correlation of some of the regressors is high. They
suggest an alternative standardized LM (SLM) test statistic whose asymptotic critical values
are generally closer to the exact critical values than those of the LM test. This SLM test
statistic centers and scales the one sided LM statistic so that its mean is zero and its variance
is one:

LM1 - E(LMi)

SLM1 — ---.       —

χ∕var (LM1)


d1 - E(d1)

√var(dι) ’


(2.13)


where d1 ——— and D1 — (Jτ   In) with U denoting the OLS residuals.  Using the

u~0u~

normality assumption and results on moments of quadratic forms in regression residuals (see

e.g. Evans and King, 1985), we get

E(d1) — tr(D1M)=s;                                                                  (2.14)
where s
NT - k and M Int - X(X0X)"1X0. Also.

var(d1) — 2fs tr(D1M)2 - [tr(D1M)]2g=s2(s + 2):                                    (2.15)

Under H0b; SLM1 should be asymptotically distributed as N(0,1).

2.3 Marginal LM Test for Hθ: λ = 0 (assuming σiμ = 0)

Similarly, the second term in (2.11), call it LMhNT H2 ; is the basis for the LM test
statistic for testing H
0: λ — 0 assuming there are no random regional effects, i.e., assuming
that
σ2μ 0, see Anselin (1988). This LM statistic should be asymptotically distributed as

Â21 under H0c . Alternatively, this can be obtained as

/N 2T                                                                        ,    .

LM2 V ~ H:                                               (2.16)



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