Data Analysis Process Flow
1. Data Analysis
- Descriptive Statistics
2. Pre-Diagnostics
- Winsorise and Trimmed at 1%
- Multicollinearity → Correlation Matrix
- Stationarity → CADF Test (Pesaran, 2007)
- Causality → Granger Causality Test
- Endogeneity → Durbin and Wu-Hausman
3. Selection of Appropriate Model
- POLS vs REM → Breusch-Pagan Lagrange Multiplier Test
- FEM vs REM → Hausman Test
4. Post-Diagnostics
- Auto-Correlation → Wooldridge Test
- Heteroscedasticity → Modified Wald Test
- Cross-Section Dependence → Pesaran CD Test
5. Consistent Results?
- Yes → Chosen Model is Appropriate (FEM/REM)
- No → When N > T, prefer PCSE (Hoechle, 2007)
6. Final Step
- Panel Corrected Standard Error (PCSE) Estimates (Beck & Katz, 1995)