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These procedures aim to have good size performance even when the parameters are unidentified or poorly identified. However, the asymptotic size and similarity (in a uniform sense) of these procedures have not been determined in the literature. This paper does so.<\/jats:p><jats:p>This paper shows that the LM test has correct asymptotic size and is asymptotically similar for a suitably chosen parameter space of null distributions. It shows that the CLR tests also have these properties when the dimension<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>of the unknown parameter<jats:italic>\u03b8<\/jats:italic>equals 1. When<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2265 2, however, the asymptotic size properties are found to depend on how the conditioning statistic, upon which the CLR tests depend, is weighted. Two weighting methods have been suggested in the literature. The paper shows that the CLR tests are guaranteed to have correct asymptotic size when<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2265 2 when the weighting is based on an estimator of the variance of the sample moments, i.e., moment-variance weighting, combined with the Robin and Smith (2000,<jats:italic>Econometric Theory<\/jats:italic>16, 151\u2013175) rank statistic. The paper also determines a formula for the asymptotic size of the CLR test when the weighting is based on an estimator of the variance of the sample Jacobian. However, the results of the paper do not guarantee correct asymptotic size when<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2265 2 with the Jacobian-variance weighting, combined with the Robin and Smith (2000,<jats:italic>Econometric Theory<\/jats:italic>16, 151\u2013175) rank statistic, because two key sample quantities are not necessarily asymptotically independent under some identification scenarios.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Analogous results for confidence sets are provided. 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