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Table 6 Meaning of some acronyms.

From: Investigating the relationship between changes in oil prices and unemployment rate in Nigeria: linear and nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag approaches

Abbreviation

Full meaning

ARCH LM test

Autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity LM test

ARDL

Autoregressive distribution lag

B-G serial Corr. LM test

Breusch–Pagan serial correlation LM test

ECM

Error correction model

FDI

Foreign direct investment

NARDL

Nonlinear autoregressive distribution lag

OPEC

Organisation of petroleum exporting countries

SVAR

Structural vector autoregressive

WTI

West Texas international