A comparative simulation study of AR(1) estimators in short time series

Tanja Krone (), Casper J. Albers and Marieke E. Timmerman
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Tanja Krone: Psychometrics and Statistics
Casper J. Albers: Psychometrics and Statistics
Marieke E. Timmerman: Psychometrics and Statistics

Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, 2017, vol. 51, issue 1, No 1, 21 pages

Abstract: Abstract Various estimators of the autoregressive model exist. We compare their performance in estimating the autocorrelation in short time series. In Study 1, under correct model specification, we compare the frequentist r 1 estimator, C-statistic, ordinary least squares estimator (OLS) and maximum likelihood estimator (MLE), and a Bayesian method, considering flat (Bf) and symmetrized reference (Bsr) priors. In a completely crossed experimental design we vary lengths of time series (i.e., T = 10, 25, 40, 50 and 100) and autocorrelation (from −0.90 to 0.90 with steps of 0.10). The results show a lowest bias for the Bsr, and a lowest variability for r 1. The power in different conditions is highest for Bsr and OLS. For T = 10, the absolute performance of all measurements is poor, as expected. In Study 2, we study robustness of the methods through misspecification by generating the data according to an ARMA(1,1) model, but still analysing the data with an AR(1) model. We use the two methods with the lowest bias for this study, i.e., Bsr and MLE. The bias gets larger when the non-modelled moving average parameter becomes larger. Both the variability and power show dependency on the non-modelled parameter. The differences between the two estimation methods are negligible for all measurements.

Keywords: Time series analysis; Autocorrelation; AR(1); Bayesian MCMC; Misspecification (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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