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Parametric estimators for stationary time series with missing observations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

W. Dunsmuir and
P. M. Robinson
W. Dunsmuir
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
P. M. Robinson*
Affiliation:
University of Surrey
*
∗∗ Postal address: Department of Mathematics, University of Surrey, Guildford, GU2 5XH, U.K.
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Abstract

Three related estimators are considered for the parametrized spectral density of a discrete-time process X(n), n = 1, 2, · · ·, when observations are not available for all the values n = 1(1)N. Each of the estimators is obtained by maximizing a frequency domain approximation to a Gaussian likelihood, although they do not appear to be the most efficient estimators available because they do not fully utilize the information in the process a(n) which determines whether X(n) is observed or missed. One estimator, called M3, assumes that the second-order properties of a(n) are known; another, M2, lets these be known only up to an unknown parameter vector; the third, M1, requires no model for a(n). Under representative sets of conditions, which allow for both deterministic and stochastic a(n), the strong consistency and asymptotic normality of M1, M2, and M3 are established. The conditions needed for consistency when X(n) is an autoregressive moving-average process are discussed in more detail. It is also shown that in general M1 and M3 are equally efficient asymptotically and M2 is never more efficient, and may be less efficient, than M1 and M3.

Keywords

PARAMETRIC SPECTRAL DENSITYMISSING DATASTRONG CONSISTENCYASYMPTOTIC NORMALITYASYMPTOTIC EFFICIENCYARMA MODELS

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Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , March 1981, pp. 129 - 146
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Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1981 

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Footnotes

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Present address: Department of Statistics, SGS, The Australian National University, P.O. Box 4, Canberra, A.C.T. 2600, Australia.

Research supported by grants SOC75-13436 and SOC78-05803 from the National Science Foundation.

Research supported by grants MCS76-07211 and MCS78-1118 from the National Science Foundation.

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