A Visual Goodness-of-Fit Test - Abstract

A Visual Goodness-of-Fit Test for Econometric Models

Ramazan Gençay
Department of Economics
University of Windsor

Faruk Selçuk
Department of Economics
Bilkent University

Pages 157-167

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Abstract

This paper designs a visual goodness-of-fit test based on the probability integral transformation of the residuals of an estimated model. We illustrate the method with histograms and correlograms of transformed series for different distributions of disturbances in simulated models. An application of the proposed test to the modeling of daily stock-market returns is also presented.

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