Further results on optimal critical values of pre‐test when estimating the regression error variance
回归误差方差估计中预检验最优临界值的进一步结果
This paper enlarges on results of Wan and Zou (Journal of Econometrics 114 (2003), 165--96) on the choice of critical values for pre-test procedures based on the minimum risk criterion. We consider a modification of the general theorem given in Wan and Zou (2003) to obtain the optimal critical value that minimizes the risks of various inequality pre-test estimators of the regression error variance under a general class of first-order differentiable loss functions.…