Generalized method of moments
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- GMM may also mean Gaussian mixture model.
- For the Thai entertainment company, see GMM Grammy.
The generalized method of moments is a very general statistical method for obtaining estimates of parameters of statistical models. It is a generalization, developed by Lars Peter Hansen, of the method of moments.
The term GMM is very popular among econometricians but is hardly used at all outside of economics, where the slightly more general term estimating equations is preferred.
Description
The idea of the generalized method of moments is to use moment conditions
that can be found from the problem with little effort. We assume that
the data are a stochastic process 
In mathematical language, we start out with a (vector valued) function f that depends both on the parameter and a single observation and that has mean zero for the true value of the parameter, θ = θ0, i.e.
![E[f(Y_i,\theta_0)] = 0.\,](/images/math/9/1/2/912c8d6ab84b0e1cd0bce10ff57d2ff2.png)
To turn this function into a parameter estimate, we minimize the associated chi-square statistic
where superscript T denotes transpose, and A is a positive definite "weighting" matrix. A may be known a priori or estimated from the sample.
See also
- Instrumental variable, subclass of this method
- Method of moments
- Method of simulated moments, which is used when the moment functions must be approximated by simulations
Further reading
- Lars Peter Hansen (1982): Large Sample Properties of Generalized Method of Moments Estimators, Econometrica 50, 1029-1054.
- Lars Peter Hansen (2002): Method of Moments in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavior Sciences, N. J. Smelser and P. B. Bates (editors), Pergamon: Oxford.
- Kirby Faciane (2006): Statistics for Empirical and Quantitative Finance. H.C. Baird: Philadelphia. ISBN 0-9788208-9-4.
- Alastair R. Hall (2005). Generalized Method of Moments (Advanced Texts in Econometrics). Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-877520-2.de:Momentenmethode
it:Metodo generalizzato dei momenti
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