Evaluating information criteria for selecting spatial processes

Christos Agiakloglou and Apostolos Tsimpanos
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Apostolos Tsimpanos: University of the Aegean

The Annals of Regional Science, 2021, vol. 66, issue 3, No 7, 677-697

Abstract: Abstract Information criteria have been widely used in many quantitative applications as an effort to select the most appropriate model that describes well enough the unknown population behavior for a given dataset. Studies have shown that their performance depends on several elements and the selection of the best fitted model is not always the same for all criteria. For this purpose, this research evaluates the performance of the three most often used information criteria, such as the Akaike information criterion, the Bayesian information criterion and Hannan and Quinn information criterion, for selecting spatial processes, taking into account that the sample in spatial analysis is regarded as a realization of a spatial process that incorporates the spatial dependence between the observations. Using a Monte Carlo analysis for the three most frequently applied in practice spatial processes, such as the first-order spatial autoregressive process, SAR(1), the first-order spatial moving average process, SMA(1), and the mixed spatial autoregressive moving average process, SARMA(1, 1), this study finds that these information criteria can assist the analyst to select the true process, but their behavior depends on sample size as well as on the magnitude of the spatial parameters, leading occasionally to alternative competitive processes.

JEL-codes: C20 C21 C52 C53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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