plm (version 2.6-4)

sargan: Hansen--Sargan Test of Overidentifying Restrictions

Description

A test of overidentifying restrictions for models estimated by GMM.

Usage

sargan(object, weights = c("twosteps", "onestep"))

Value

An object of class "htest".

Arguments

object

an object of class "pgmm",

weights

the weighting matrix to be used for the computation of the test.

Author

Yves Croissant

Details

The Hansen--Sargan test ("J test") calculates the quadratic form of the moment restrictions that is minimized while computing the GMM estimator. It follows asymptotically a chi-square distribution with number of degrees of freedom equal to the difference between the number of moment conditions and the number of coefficients.

References

HANS:82plm

SARG:58plm

See Also

pgmm()

Examples

data("EmplUK", package = "plm")
ar <- pgmm(log(emp) ~ lag(log(emp), 1:2) + lag(log(wage), 0:1) +
           lag(log(capital), 0:2) + lag(log(output), 0:2) | lag(log(emp), 2:99),
           data = EmplUK, effect = "twoways", model = "twosteps")
sargan(ar)