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Department of Mathematics,
University of California San Diego

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Math 288 - Seminar In Probability & Statistics

Tucker McElroy

US Census Bureau

Testing Collinearity of Vector Time Series

Abstract:

We investigate the collinearity of vector time series in the frequency domain, by examining the rank of the spectral density matrix at a given frequency of interest. Rank reduction corresponds to collinearity at the given frequency. When the time series data is nonstationary and has been differenced to stationarity, collinearity corresponds to co-integration at a particular frequency. We pursue a full understanding of rank through the Schur complements of the spectral density matrix, and test for rank reduction via assessing the positivity of these Schur complements, which are obtained from a nonparametric estimator of the spectral density. We provide new asymptotic results for the Schur complements, under the fixed bandwidth ratio paradigm. The test statistics are $O_P (1)$ under the alternative, but under the null hypothesis of collinearity the test statistics are $O_P (T^{-1})$, and the limiting distribution is non-standard. Subsampling is used to obtain the limiting null quantiles. Simulation study and an empirical illustration for six-variate time series data are provided.

Host: Dimitris Politis

June 7, 2017

11:00 AM

AP&M 6402

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