Centre Fellows

Grant Hillier

University of Southampton

Professor of Econometrics

Selected Publications

A simple four-moment approximation to the distribution of a positive definite quadratic form, with applications to testing

The exact distribution of a quadratic form in n standard normal variables, Q; say, (or, equivalently, […]

Grant Hillier, Raymond O'Brien
10 January 2022 | CWP02/22
Improved tests for mediation

Testing for a mediation effect is important in many disciplines, but is made difficult – even […]

Grant Hillier, Kees Jan van Garderen, Noud van Giersbergen
10 January 2022 | CWP01/22
Nonparametric testing for exogeneity with discrete regressors and instruments

This paper presents new approaches to testing for exogeneity in non-parametric models with discrete regressors and […]

Katarzyna Bech, Grant Hillier
11 March 2015 | CWP11/15
Generating functions and short recursions, with applications to the moments of quadratic forms in noncentral normal vectors

Recursive relations for objects of statistical interest have long been important for computation, and they remain […]

Grant Hillier, Raymond Kan, Xiaolu Wang
30 April 2014 | Journal Article

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Properties of the maximum likelihood estimator in spatial autoregressive models

The (quasi-) maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) for the autoregressive parameter in a spatial autoregressive model cannot […]

Grant Hillier, Federico Martellosio
19 September 2013 | CWP44/13
Spatial circular matrices, with applications

The cumulants of the quadratic forms associated to the so-called spatial design matrices are often needed […]

Grant Hillier, Federico Martellosio
8 March 2010 | CWP06/10
Exact properties of the conditional likelihood ratio test in an IV regression model

For a simplified structural equation/IV regression model with one right-side endogenous variable, we derive the exact […]

Grant Hillier
1 August 2009 | Journal Article

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Exact properties of the conditional likelihood ratio test in an IV regression model

This paper was revised in May 2007. For a simplified structural equation/IV regression model with one […]

Grant Hillier
1 August 2009 | Journal Article
On the conditional likelihood ratio test for several parameters in IV regression

For the problem of testing the hypothesis that all m coefficients of the RHS endogenous variables […]

Grant Hillier
1 April 2009 | Journal Article
Computationally efficient recursions for top-order invariant polynomials with applications

The top-order zonal polynomials Ck(A),and top-order invariant polynomials Ck1,…,kr(A1,…,Ar)in which each of the partitions of ki,i […]

Grant Hillier, Raymond Kan, Xiaolu Wang
1 February 2009 | Journal Article

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Computationally efficient recursions for top-order invariant polynomials with applications
Grant Hillier, Raymond Kan, Xiaolu Wang
20 February 2008 | CWP07/08