Joint Structural Break Detection and Parameter Estimation in High-Dimensional Nonstationary VAR Models

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Joint Structural Break Detection and Parameter Estimation in High-Dimensional Nonstationary VAR Models (scientific article; zbMATH DE number 7661379)



Abstract: Assuming stationarity is unrealistic in many time series applications. A more realistic alternative is to allow for piecewise stationarity, where the model is allowed to change at given time points. We propose a three-stage procedure for consistent estimation of both structural change points and parameters of high-dimensional piecewise vector autoregressive (VAR) models. In the first step, we reformulate the change point detection problem as a high-dimensional variable selection one, and propose a penalized least square estimator using a total variation penalty. We show that the proposed penalized estimation method over-estimates the number of change points. We then propose a backward selection criterion in conjunction with a penalized least square estimator to tackle this issue. In the last step of our procedure, we estimate the VAR parameters in each of the segments. We prove that the proposed procedure consistently detects the number of change points and their locations. We also show that the procedure consistently estimates the VAR parameters. The performance of the method is illustrated through several simulation scenarios and real data examples.




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