You will be presented with a citation segment from the section of a research paper. Classify the intent behind this citation by choosing from one of the following categories:

- Method: Cites the paper for its methodology or procedure.
- Background: Cites the paper to provide background information.
- Result: Cites the paper for its findings or results.

Your answer should be a single word from the following list of options: ["Method", "Background", "Result"]. Do not include any other text in your response.

Citation sentence:

After having estimated the TVAR for a given lag of the threshold variable, we perform a sup-LR test (Hansen, 1999; Lo and Zivot, 2001; Galv√£o, 2003; Clements and Galv√£o, 2004), in order to check the robustness of the results provided by the Tsay tests as to possible small-sample biases.
Method