- Title Pages
- About the Arne Ryde Foundation
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary
- Data and Software
-
1 Introduction -
2 Discovery -
3 Background to Automatic Model Selection -
4 Empirical Modeling Illustrated -
5 Evaluating Model Selection -
6 The Theory of Reduction -
7 General-to-specific Modeling -
8 Selecting a Model in One Decision -
9 The 2-variable DGP -
10 Bias Correcting Selection Effects -
11 Comparisons of 1-cut Selection with Autometrics -
12 Impact of Diagnostic Tests -
13 Role of Encompassing -
14 Retaining a Theory Model During Selection -
15 Detecting Outliers and Breaks Using IIS -
16 Re-modeling UK Real Consumers' Expenditure -
17 . Comparisons of Autometrics with Other Approaches -
18. Model Selection in Underspecified Settings -
19 More Variables than Observations -
20 Impulse-indicator Saturation for Multiple Breaks -
21 Selecting Non-linear Models -
22 Testing Super Exogeneity -
23 Selecting Forecasting Models -
24 Epilogue - References
- Author Index
- Index
Discovery
Discovery
- Chapter:
- (p.17) 2 Discovery
- Source:
- Empirical Model Discovery and Theory Evaluation
- Author(s):
David F. Hendry
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
This chapter begins by discussing some of the many ways in which discoveries have been made in physical and biological sciences. There seem to be seven common aspects of such discoveries and their subsequent evaluations. Despite important differences, discovery and evaluation in economics are similar to those of other sciences, and the same seven common aspects can be discerned. The complexity of macroeconomic data intrinsically involves empirical discovery with theory evaluation, as well as requiring rigorous evaluation of selected models to ascertain their viability. Directly fitting a theory-specified model limits the potential for discovery. Retrospectively, covert discovery has been common in empirical econometrics.
Keywords: Scientific discovery, empirical discovery, theory evaluation
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- Title Pages
- About the Arne Ryde Foundation
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary
- Data and Software
-
1 Introduction -
2 Discovery -
3 Background to Automatic Model Selection -
4 Empirical Modeling Illustrated -
5 Evaluating Model Selection -
6 The Theory of Reduction -
7 General-to-specific Modeling -
8 Selecting a Model in One Decision -
9 The 2-variable DGP -
10 Bias Correcting Selection Effects -
11 Comparisons of 1-cut Selection with Autometrics -
12 Impact of Diagnostic Tests -
13 Role of Encompassing -
14 Retaining a Theory Model During Selection -
15 Detecting Outliers and Breaks Using IIS -
16 Re-modeling UK Real Consumers' Expenditure -
17 . Comparisons of Autometrics with Other Approaches -
18. Model Selection in Underspecified Settings -
19 More Variables than Observations -
20 Impulse-indicator Saturation for Multiple Breaks -
21 Selecting Non-linear Models -
22 Testing Super Exogeneity -
23 Selecting Forecasting Models -
24 Epilogue - References
- Author Index
- Index
