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The Quandt (1960) likelihood ratio (QLR) test is a natural extension of the Chow test where a F-test statistic is calculated for all potential breakpoints within a particular interval. This interval is usually dependent upon the degrees of freedom that are required for the estimation of the regression model.

The Quandt Likelihood Ratio (QLR) (1960) test builds on the Chow test and attempts to eliminate the need for picking a break point by computing the Chow test at all possible break points.

In econometrics and statistics, a structural break is an unexpected change over time in the parameters of regression models, which can lead to huge forecasting errors and unreliability of the model in general.

Structural break tests help us to determine when and whether there is a significant change in our data. Commands estat sbknown and estat sbsingle test for a structural break after estimation with regress or ivregress.

Dummy Variables are a common way of solving structural breaks, as it does not involve splitting the data. These variables consist of 1s and 0s and are often termed 'on-off' variables. They can be used to determine the importance of policy actions on models and are often used to account for qualitative effects.

The Quandt-Andrews test requires the specification of trimming parameters ?0 and ?1. The trimming parameters specifies the fraction of the sample near the beginning and the end of a series that are not used in the structural break tests because breaks are hard to identify near the beginning and end of a series.

The stages in running the Chow test are: Firstly run the regression using all the data, before and after the structural break, collect RSSc. Run two separate regressions on the data before and after the structural break, collecting the RSS in both cases, giving RSS1 and RSS2.