Bierens, Herman J.2009-11-192009-11-191981-10Bierens, H.J., (1981), "A Test for Model Specification in the Absence of Alternative Hypothesis", Discussion Paper No. 154, Center for Economic Research, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota.https://hdl.handle.net/11299/55129In recent papers ([6], [4]) several tests have been proposed for testing the truth of a nonlinear specification of a regression model against one or more well-specified alternative hypothesis. In this paper we first show by an example that these tests may be defective if all the hypotheses are false, and then we propose a new test that does not need alternative hypotheses in the sense that we only test whether or not a given specification is true.en-USA Test for Model Specification in the Absence of Alternative HypothesisWorking Paper