In this paper we consider adaptive Bayesian semiparametric analysis of the linear regression model in the presence of conditional heteroskedasticity. The distribution of the error term on predictors are modelled by a normal distribution with covariate-dependent variance. We show that a...

A recent article (Pavelescu, 2009) proposes a correction to the conventional student-t test of significance in linear regression models, but offers no formal description of its properties. This comment formally characterizes the sampling properties of the corrected student-t statistic. In...