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Testing for Stationarity in Multivariate Locally Stationary Processes
Author(s) -
Puchstein Ruprecht,
Preuß Philip
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of time series analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.576
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1467-9892
pISSN - 0143-9782
DOI - 10.1111/jtsa.12133
Subject(s) - mathematics , smoothing , nonparametric statistics , multivariate statistics , statistic , test statistic , series (stratigraphy) , stationary process , regularization (linguistics) , autoregressive model , statistical hypothesis testing , statistics , computer science , artificial intelligence , paleontology , biology
In this article, we propose a nonparametric procedure for validating the assumption of stationarity in multivariate locally stationary time series models. We develop a bootstrap‐assisted test based on a Kolmogorov–Smirnov‐type statistic, which tracks the deviation of the time‐varying spectral density from its best stationary approximation. In contrast to all other nonparametric approaches, which have been proposed in the literature so far, the test statistic does not depend on any regularization parameters like smoothing bandwidths or a window length, which is usually required in a segmentation of the data. We additionally show how our new procedure can be used to identify the components where non‐stationarities occur and indicate possible extensions of this innovative approach. We conclude with an extensive simulation study, which shows finite‐sample properties of the new method and contains a comparison with existing approaches.