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A note on the irrelevance of unit root tests and cointegration tests


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We show that, in practice, the standard unit root tests, cointegration tests, and similar tests are unreliable. This conclusion is more generally applicable to other related regression-based tests. In particular, these tests attempt to solve a problem by creating another problem.

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1896-3811
Language:
English
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2 times per year
Journal Subjects:
Life Sciences, Bioinformatics, other, Mathematics, Probability and Statistics, Applied Mathematics