A new mixing notion and functional central limit theorems for a sieve bootstrap in time series (Q1301750)

A bootstrap method for stationary real-valued time series based on the sieves of autoregressive processes is studied. Given a sample \(X_1,\dots,X_n\) from a linear process \((X_t)_{t\in Z}\), the underlying process is approximated by an autoregressive model of order \(p=p(n)\), where \(p(n)\to\infty, p(n)=o(n)\), as the sample size \(n\to\infty\). Based on such a model, a bootstrap process \((X^*_t)_{t\in Z}\) is constructed from which one can draw samples of any size. It is shown that, with high probability, such a sieve bootstrap process \((X^*_t)_{t\in Z}\) satisfies a new type of mixing condition. This implies that many results for stationary mixing sequences carry over to sieve bootstrap processes. As an example, a functional central limit theorem under bracketing condition is derived.