Highly Robust Estimation of the Autocovariance Function

Yanyuan Ma and Marc G. Genton

Journal of Time Series Analysis, 2000, vol. 21, issue 6, 663-684

Abstract: In this paper, the problem of the robustness of the sample autocovariance function is addressed. We propose a new autocovariance estimator, based on a highly robust estimator of scale. Its robustness properties are studied by means of the influence function, and a new concept of temporal breakdown point. As the theoretical variance of the estimator does not have a closed form, we perform a simulation study. Situations with various size of outliers are tested. They confirm the robustness properties of the new estimator. An S‐Plus function for the highly robust autocovariance estimator is made available on the Web at http://www‐math.mit.edu/~yanyuan/Genton/Time/time.html. At the end, we analyze a time series of monthly interest rates of an Austrian bank.

Date: 2000
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