--- Chiara Mussida <[email protected]> wrote:
> ok, isn't there a proper test for that decision? sorry for bothering
> again, but I want to be also econometrically confortable with my
> decision of estimating separately
If this is a model selection decision, than you probably should not
test, because all the test that you finally care about (the hyptotheses
of substantive interest) are than conditional on this model selection
test, so your type I error rates are no longer 5% (if you chose 5%).
-- Maarten
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