Abstract
The application of Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) to a single equation assumes among others, that the predictor variables are truly exogenous; that there is only one-way causation between the dependent variable yi and the predictor variables xij. If this is not true and the xij ′S are at the same time determined by yi, the OLS assumption will be violated and a single equation method will give biased and inconsistent parameter estimates. The OLS also suffers a huge set back in the presence of contaminated data. In order to rectify these problems, simultaneous equation models have been introduced as well as robust regression. In this paper, we construct a simultaneous equation model with variables that exhibit simultaneous dependence and we proposed a robust multivariate regression procedure for estimating the parameters of such models. The performance of the robust multivariate regression procedure was examined and compared with the OLS multivariate regression technique and the Three-Stage Least squares procedure (3SLS) using numerical simulation experiment. The performance of the robust multivariate regression and (3SLS) were approximately equally better than OLS when there is no contamination in the data. Nevertheless, when contaminations occur in the data, the robust multivariate regression outperformed the 3SLS and OLS.
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