rivtest swMATH ID: 37485 Software Authors: Finlay, Keith; Leandro M. Magnusson Description: Implementing weak-instrument robust tests for a general class of instrumental-variables models. We present a minimum distance approach for conducting hypothesis testing in the presence of potentially weak instruments. Under this approach, we propose size-correct tests for limited dependent variable models with endogenous explanatory variables such as endogenous tobit and probit models. Addition- ally, we extend weak-instrument tests for the linear instrumental-variables model by allowing for variance–covariance estimation that is robust to arbitrary heteroskedasticity or intracluster dependence. We invert these tests to construct confidence intervals on the coefficient of the endogenous variable. We also provide a postestimation command for Stata, called rivtest, for computing the tests and estimating confidence intervals. Homepage: https://kfinlay.github.io/pdf/FinlayMagnusson2009.pdf Dependencies: Stata Related Software: condivreg; Ranktest; ivreg2; Stata Cited in: 2 Documents Cited by 5 Authors 1 Murray, Michael P. 1 Shao, Hui 1 Shi, Lizheng 1 Stoecker, Charles 1 Yang, Shuang Cited in 2 Serials 1 Communications in Statistics. Simulation and Computation 1 Journal of Econometric Methods Cited in 1 Field 2 Statistics (62-XX) Citations by Year