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White’s Test for Homoskedasticity

The null hypothesis of the White’s test states that the residual error terms are homoskedastic (no violation of the OLS assumption – this is good!).  WinORS reports both the White statistic and its associated P-value.  A rejection of the null hypothesis at the 95% confidence level would require a P-value of 0.05 or smaller (this is a violation of the assumption – bad!).  That is, if the computed p-value is greater than 0.05 (or some acceptable cutoff level), then do not reject the null hypothesis (this is good!).  When the homoskedasticity assumption is violated, White’s test does not suggest what to do next. However, we suggest trying weighted ordinary least squares.


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