ON THE UNBIASEDNESS PROPERTY OF AIC FOR EXACT OR APPROXIMATING LINEAR STOCHASTIC TIME SERIES MODELS

D. F. Findley

Journal of Time Series Analysis, 1985, vol. 6, issue 4, 229-252

Abstract: Abstract. A rigorous analysis is given of the asymptotic bias of the log maximum likelihood as an estimate of the expected log likelihood of the maximum likelihood model, when a linear model, such as an invertible, gaussian ARMA (p, q) model, with or without parameter constraints, is fit to stationary, possibly non‐gaussian observations. It is assumed that these data arise from a model whose spectral density function either (i) coincides with that of a member of the class of models being fit, or, that failing, (ii) can be well‐approximated by invertible ARMA (p, q) model spectral density functions in the class, whose ARMA coefficients are parameterized separately from the innovations variance. Our analysis shows that, for the purpose of comparing maximum likelihood models from different model classes, Akaike's AIC is asymptotically unbiased, in case (i), under gaussian or separate parametrization assumptions, but is not necessarily unbiased otherwise. In case (ii), its asymptotic bias is shown to be of the order of a number less than unity raised to the power max {p, q} and so is negligible if max {p, q} is not too small. These results extend and complete the somewhat heuristic analysis given by Ogata (1980) for exact or approximating autoregressive models.

Date: 1985
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