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http://dx.doi.org/10.5351/KJAS.2022.35.5.631

Robust estimation of sparse vector autoregressive models  

Kim, Dongyeong (Department of Statistics, Sungkyunkwan University)
Baek, Changryong (Department of Statistics, Sungkyunkwan University)
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The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics / v.35, no.5, 2022 , pp. 631-644 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper considers robust estimation of the sparse vector autoregressive model (sVAR) useful in high-dimensional time series analysis. First, we generalize the result of Xu et al. (2008) that the adaptive lasso indeed has robustness in sVAR as well. However, adaptive lasso method in sVAR performs poorly as the number and sizes of outliers increases. Therefore, we propose new robust estimation methods for sVAR based on least absolute deviation (LAD) and Huber estimation. Our simulation results show that our proposed methods provide more accurate estimation in turn showed better forecasting performance when outliers exist. In addition, we applied our proposed methods to power usage data and confirmed that there are unignorable outliers and robust estimation taking such outliers into account improves forecasting.
Keywords
robust estimation; vector autoregression; adaptive lasso;
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