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Table 3 The diagnostic tests before regression

From: Board of directors and earnings manipulation: evidence from regulatory change

Variance inflation factor

Variables

ROA

BEXP

ACEXP

LOSS(D)

BIND

FSIZE

ACIND

SALES

BIG4

INV

VIF

2.65

2.05

1.92

1.87

1.73

1.65

1.64

1.63

1.56

1.53

1/VIF

0.38

0.49

0.52

0.54

0.58

0.61

0.61

0.61

0.64

0.65

Variables

LEVE

TANG

FD

BSIZE

BF

BMEET

FAGE

CEOD

CFO

 

VIF

1.49

1.34

1.26

1.23

1.18

1.18

1.09

1.03

1.01

 

1/VIF

0.67

0.75

0.79

0.81

0.85

0.85

0.92

0.97

0.99

 

Breusch–Pagan/Cook–Weisberg test for heteroscedasticity

 

Ho: Constant variance

Variables: fitted values of MCDA

χ2 (1) = 5.26

χ2 > chi2 = 0.0219

 

Wooldridge test for autocorrelation

 

H0: no first-order autocorrelation

F ( 1, 197) = 0.279

F-Statistics = 0.5980

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