Two-Stage Least Squares: In Which Direction Should the Residuals Be Minimized?
两阶段最小二乘:应沿哪个方向最小化残差?
A structural equation in a complete system may be written with the coefficient of one endogenous variable as unity and the coefficients of the other endogenous variables as parameters. To estimate these parameters two-stage least squares is usually applied by minimizing residuals in the direction of the first variable. In this paper, when there is one such parameter, that procedure is compared with adapting two-stage least squares to minimize residuals in the direction of…