Indirect inference for time series using the empirical characteristic function and control variates. (8th February 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Davis, Richard A.; do Rêgo Sousa, Thiago; Klüppelberg, Claudia
• Other Names: Bradley Richard C. guestEditor.; Davis Richard A. guestEditor.; Politis Dimitris N. guestEditor.
• Is Part Of: Journal of time series analysis. Volume 42:Number 5/6(2021)
• Page Start: 653
• Page End: 684
• Publication Date: 2021-02-08
• Subjects: Asymptotic normality -- characteristic function -- control variates -- indirect inference estimation -- time series of counts -- SLLN -- variance reduction; Time-series analysis -- Periodicals; 519.232
• DOI: 10.1111/jtsa.12582
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0143-9782

Abstract

Abstract : We estimate the parameter of a stationary time series process by minimizing the integrated weighted mean squared error between the empirical and simulated characteristic function, when the true characteristic functions cannot be explicitly computed. Motivated by Indirect Inference, we use a Monte Carlo approximation of the characteristic function based on i.i.d. simulated blocks. As a classical variance reduction technique, we propose the use of control variates for reducing the variance of this Monte Carlo approximation. These two approximations yield two new estimators that are applicable to a large class of time series processes. We show consistency and asymptotic normality of the parameter estimators under strong mixing, moment conditions, and smoothness of the simulated blocks with respect to its parameter. In a simulation study we show the good performance of these new simulation based estimators, and the superiority of the control variates based estimator for Poisson driven time series of counts.