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Notes and Comments: A Stochastic Optimal Control Technique for Models with Estimated Coefficients

Roger Craine
Arthur Havenner

Abstract

"If one is willing to interpret Q [the Goldberger, Nagar, Odeh reduced form coefficient covariance estimate] as a covariance matrix of the random parameter @p around the constant @p, rather than as a covariance matrix of the random estimates @p, then using @p for @p and Q for Q [@p and Q are the mean and covariance matrix of the random parameter @p] will provide an approximate solution to the evaluation of expectations required in our optimal control problem" [3, p. 641], italics added).