RESEARCH PAPER NO. 794

SAMPLE SIZE REQUIREMENTS FOR ESTIMATION IN SUR MODELS

by

WILLIAM E. GRIFFITHS, CHRISTOPHER L. SKEELS & DUANGKAMON CHOTIKAPANICH

JUNE 2001

Department of Economics. University of Melbourne. Melbourne Victoria 3010 Australia

ABSTRACT

This paper explores sample size requirements for the estimation of SUR models by (two-stage) feasible generalized least squares, maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods. It is found that the sample size requirements presented in standard treatments of SUR models are incomplete and potentially misleading. It is also demonstrated that likelihood-based methods potentially require larger sample sizes than does the two-stage estimator considered in this paper.

 

 

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