--- On Thu, 1/10/09, Abhijit Sen Gupta wrote:
> I am interesting in empirically testing the trade
> off between three indices. I have data for three indices
> -- Index1, Index 2 and Index 3. All of these range between 0
> and 1. The idea is that increasing one index, say Index 1,
> should induce lower Index 2, or lower Index 3, or a
> combination of these two policy adjustments (a combination
> of lower Index 2 and lower Index 3). Hence, I need to test
> the validity of a linear tradeoff. I was thinking of a
> way to test that the weighted average of the three indices
> are equal to some constant. Could somebody please let me
> know if there is a procedure to do this or any other method
> to test the trade offs?.
Sounds to me like a correlation matrix, where the presence of
trade-off is represented by a negative correlation.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
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