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http://dx.doi.org/10.7465/jkdi.2014.25.6.1499

A Wilcoxon signed-rank test for random walk hypothesis based on slopes  

Kim, Tae Yoon (Department of Statistics, Keimyung University)
Park, Cheolyong (Department of Statistics, Keimyung University)
Kim, Seul Gee (Department of Statistics, Keimyung University)
Kim, Min Seok (Department of Statistics, Keimyung University)
Lee, Woo Jung (Department of Statistics, Keimyung University)
Kwon, Yunji (Department of Statistics, Keimyung University)
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Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society / v.25, no.6, 2014 , pp. 1499-1506 More about this Journal
Abstract
Random walk is used for describing random phenomenon in various areas but tests for random walk developed so far are known to suffer from size distortion and low power. Kim et al. (2014) proposed a sign test for unit root (${\rho}=1$) hypothesis based on slopes. This article proposes a Wilcoxon signed rank test based on slopes for unit root hypothesis, and compares it with the augmented Dickey-Fuller test and the sign test by a simulation study. Our results confirm that the nonparametric tests are better than ADF test for small samples like n = 30. The results also show that the sign test is better than the Wilcoxon signed rank test and that for 0 < ${\rho}$ < 1 (-1 < ${\rho}$ < 0), the nonparametric tests suffer from power loss (improvement) as normal error changes to double exponential error.
Keywords
Low power; random walk; size distortion; unit root; Wilcoxon signed rank test;
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