Generalized Method of Moments gmm

statsmodels.gmm contains model classes and functions that are based on estimation with Generalized Method of Moments. Currently the general non-linear case is implemented. An example class for the standard linear instrumental variable model is included. This has been introduced as a test case, it works correctly but it does not take the linear structure into account. For the linear case we intend to introduce a specific implementation which will be faster and numerically more accurate.

Currently, GMM takes arbitrary non-linear moment conditions and calculates the estimates either for a given weighting matrix or iteratively by alternating between estimating the optimal weighting matrix and estimating the parameters. Implementing models with different moment conditions is done by subclassing GMM. In the minimal implementation only the moment conditions, momcond have to be defined.

Module Reference

GMM(endog, exog, instrument[, k_moms, …])	Class for estimation by Generalized Method of Moments
GMMResults(*args, **kwds)	just a storage class right now
IV2SLS(endog, exog[, instrument])	Instrumental variables estimation using Two-Stage Least-Squares (2SLS)
IVGMM(endog, exog, instrument[, k_moms, …])	Basic class for instrumental variables estimation using GMM
IVGMMResults(*args, **kwds)	Results class of IVGMM
IVRegressionResults(model, params[, …])	Results class for for an OLS model.
LinearIVGMM(endog, exog, instrument[, …])	class for linear instrumental variables models estimated with GMM
NonlinearIVGMM(endog, exog, instrument, …)	Class for non-linear instrumental variables estimation wusing GMM