Robustness of Sign Tests for Testing Hypotheses about Order of Autoregression

Boldin, M. V.

doi:10.1137/s0040585x97986242

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“…Despite their simplicity, the sign tests do extremely well (confirming univariate robustness results by Boldin (2012Boldin ( , 2013) but remain less powerful than the bias-corrected vdW tests.…”

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Rank-Based Testing for Semiparametric VAR Models: a measure transportation approach

Hallin¹,

Vecchia²,

Liu³

2020

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We develop a class of tests for semiparametric vector autoregressive (VAR) models with unspecified innovation densities, based on the recent measure-transportation-based concepts of multivariate center-outward ranks and signs. We show that these concepts, combined with Le Cam's asymptotic theory of statistical experiments, yield novel testing procedures, which (a) are valid under a broad class of innovation densities (possibly non-elliptical, skewed, and/or with infinite moments), (b) are optimal (locally asymptotically maximin or most stringent) at selected ones, and (c) are robust against additive outliers. In order to do so, we establish a Hájek asymptotic representation result, of independent interest, for a general class of center-outward rank-based serial statistics. As an illustration, we consider the problems of testing the absence of serial correlation in multiple-output and possibly non-linear regression (an extension of the classical Durbin-Watson problem) and the sequential identification of the order p of a vector autoregressive (VAR(p)) model. A Monte Carlo comparative study of our tests and their routinely-applied Gaussian competitors demonstrates the benefits (in terms of size, power, and robustness) of our methodology; these benefits are particularly significant in the presence of asymmetric and leptokurtic innovation densities. A real data application concludes the paper.

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confidence: 78%