Group LASSO for Structural Break Time Series

Ngai Hang Chan, Chun Yip Yau and Rong-Mao Zhang

Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2014, vol. 109, issue 506, 590-599

Abstract: Consider a structural break autoregressive (SBAR) process where j = 1, ..., m + 1, { t 1 , ..., t m } are change-points, 1 = t 0 > t 1 > ⋅⋅⋅ > t m + 1 = n + 1, σ( · ) is a measurable function on , and {ϵ t } are white noise with unit variance. In practice, the number of change-points m is usually assumed to be known and small, because a large m would involve a huge amount of computational burden for parameters estimation. By reformulating the problem in a variable selection context, the group least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) is proposed to estimate an SBAR model when m is unknown. It is shown that both m and the locations of the change-points { t 1 , ..., t m } can be consistently estimated from the data, and the computation can be efficiently performed. An improved practical version that incorporates group LASSO and the stepwise regression variable selection technique are discussed. Simulation studies are conducted to assess the finite sample performance. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2013.866566

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