When Making Functional Form Choices to Alleviate an Interpolation/extrapolation Identification

question 6

Multiple Choice

When making functional form choices to alleviate an interpolation/extrapolation identification challenge the justification will almost always take what form?

• A) A calculation of difference of means across sub-samples of the data
• B) Theoretical argument
• C) A hypothesis test
• D) A p-value from a test statistic

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