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Theory and Method

Performance of the Durbin-Watson Test and WLS Estimation When the Disturbance Term Includes Serial Dependence in Addition to First-Order Autocorrelation

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Pages 117-128 | Received 01 Mar 1976, Published online: 12 Mar 2012

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