The influence of covariance Hankel matrix dimension on algorithms for VARMA models

Some methods for estimating VARMA models, and Multivariate Time Series Models in general, rely on the use of a Hankel matrix. Some authors suggest taking a larger dimension than theoretically necessary for this matrix. If the data sample is populous enough and the Hankel matrix dimension is unnecess...

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Autores: Pestano Gabino, Celina, González Concepción, Concepción Nieves, Gil Fariña, María Candelaria
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universidad de La Laguna (ULL)
Repositorio:RIULL. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
OAI Identifier:oai:riull.ull.es:915/41409
Acceso en línea:http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/41409
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Covariance Hankel matrices
Vector Autoregressive Moving-Average (VARMA) models
vectorvalued linear stochastic systems
simulated models
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Sumario:Some methods for estimating VARMA models, and Multivariate Time Series Models in general, rely on the use of a Hankel matrix. Some authors suggest taking a larger dimension than theoretically necessary for this matrix. If the data sample is populous enough and the Hankel matrix dimension is unnecessarily large, this may result in an unnecessary number of computations, as well as in worse numerical and statistical results. We provide some theoretical results to know which is the Hankel matrix with the lowest dimension that is theoretically necessary and illustrate, with several simulated VARMA models, that using a dimension of the Hankel matrix greater than the theoretical minimal dimension proposed as valid does not necessarily lead to improved estimates. Although we use two algorithms, our main contributions are independent of the estimation method considered. We note that our paper does not include any comparisons between different algorithms for estimating VARMA models, as this is not our aim.