<blockquote>
  <p>Staiger and Stock (1997) formalized the definition of “weak
  instruments” and most researchers seem to have concluded (incorrectly)
  from that work (or hearsay) that if the F-statistic on the excluded
  instruments in the first stage is greater than 10, one need worry no
  further about weak instruments.Stock and Yogo (2005) go into more
  detail and provide useful rules of thumb regarding the weakness of
  instruments based on a statistic due to Cragg and Donald (1993).
  Stock, Wright, and Yogo (2002) provide a summary of this work.</p>
</blockquote>

<p><a href="https://www.stata.com/meeting/5nasug/wiv.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Weak instruments:  An overview and new techniques</a></p>

<p>Austin Nichols (2006)</p>

<p>While an  F-statistic cutoff of 10 may be a crude rule of thumb and not sufficient to conclude that a set of instruments are not weak, Stock, Wright, and Yogo (2002) have a table about weak instrument cutoff values that goes down to 1 instrument.
<a href="https://i.sstatic.net/qZIOs.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/qZIOs.png" alt="enter image description here"></a>
<a href="https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a4c8/275a5f64d44ff78451197f9a31200f68d542.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">GMM, Weak Instruments, and Weak Identification</a></p>

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Thanks for you reply. The table that you have shared from their 2002 version of the paper is a subset of the larger table given in the 2005 paper. This table gives critical value in case of one endogenous variable, but I have 3 endogenous variables and with latter the critical values are given when the model has at least 5 instruments.
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<p>I have 3 endogenous variables in my model and I have identified 3 (or max 4) instruments. I wanted to know appropriate test for identifying whether the instruments are weak or not given that I have heteroskedaticity (cluster option is being used) in my data. I read that one should employ the Kleibergen-Paap F statistic in this case and compare with Stock and Yogo Critical values but in the case of 3 endogenous variables the table in their paper starts with a min of 5 instruments. I am confused as to which test to employ in this case. Any suggestions would be useful in this regard.</p>

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Testing for weak instrument
Disha
# Testing for weak instrument

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-04-11)

I have 3 endogenous variables in my model and I have identified 3 (or max 4) instruments. I wanted to know appropriate test for identifying whether the instruments are weak or not given that I have heteroskedaticity (cluster option is being used) in my data. I read that one should employ the Kleibergen-Paap F statistic in this case and compare with Stock and Yogo Critical values but in the case of 3 endogenous variables the table in their paper starts with a min of 5 instruments. I am confused as to which test to employ in this case. Any suggestions would be useful in this regard.

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2019-04-11. Score: 1

> Staiger and Stock (1997) formalized the definition of “weak
> instruments” and most researchers seem to have concluded (incorrectly)
> from that work (or hearsay) that if the F-statistic on the excluded
> instruments in the first stage is greater than 10, one need worry no
> further about weak instruments.Stock and Yogo (2005) go into more
> detail and provide useful rules of thumb regarding the weakness of
> instruments based on a statistic due to Cragg and Donald (1993).
> Stock, Wright, and Yogo (2002) provide a summary of this work.

[Weak instruments: An overview and new techniques](https://www.stata.com/meeting/5nasug/wiv.pdf)

Austin Nichols (2006)

While an F-statistic cutoff of 10 may be a crude rule of thumb and not sufficient to conclude that a set of instruments are not weak, Stock, Wright, and Yogo (2002) have a table about weak instrument cutoff values that goes down to 1 instrument.
[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/qZIOs.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/qZIOs.png)
[GMM, Weak Instruments, and Weak Identification](https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a4c8/275a5f64d44ff78451197f9a31200f68d542.pdf)

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: Thanks for you reply. The table that you have shared from their 2002 version of the paper is a subset of the larger table given in the 2005 paper. This table gives critical value in case of one endogenous variable, but I have 3 endogenous variables and with latter the critical values are given when the model has at least 5 instruments.  

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