“…Following Box, Jenkins & Reinsel (), the exact log‐likelihood function is given bywhere C is a constant independent of the parameter vector θ . Considering the reparameterisation given in and dropping constant terms (McLeod & Zhang ), we can write the log‐likelihood function aswhere π =( π 1 ,…, π p ) ⊤ , andwith D ( y , β ) being the ( p +1)×( p +1) matrix with ( i , j )‐entry which is the sum of n −( i −1)−( j −1) squares and lagged products, defined by:…”