Ratio tests for change point detection
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Publication:6209550
DOI10.1214/193940307000000220arXiv0805.2473MaRDI QIDQ6209550FDOQ6209550
Lajos Horváth, Zsuzsanna Horváth, Marie Hušková
Publication date: 16 May 2008
Abstract: We propose new tests to detect a change in the mean of a time series. Like many existing tests, the new ones are based on the CUSUM process. Existing CUSUM tests require an estimator of a scale parameter to make them asymptotically distribution free under the no change null hypothesis. Even if the observations are independent, the estimation of the scale parameter is not simple since the estimator for the scale parameter should be at least consistent under the null as well as under the alternative. The situation is much more complicated in case of dependent data, where the empirical spectral density at 0 is used to scale the CUSUM process. To circumvent these difficulties, new tests are proposed which are ratios of CUSUM functionals. We demonstrate the applicability of our method to detect a change in the mean when the errors are AR(1) and GARCH(1,1) sequences.
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