Homework 3
STATS 4A03
Due on Crowdmark by Friday, March 1st at 11:59pm
Guidelines: Unless otherwise specified, you are required to justify and prove all your answers.
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Your homework grade will be based on completeness plus the correctness of a random subset of four (4) problems.
Exercise 1. Suppose {Yt } is a time series such that Yt = et + cet - 1 + cet -2 + · · · + ce0 for all t > 0.
a) Find the mean and covariance functions for {Yt }, and determine whether or not {Yt } is stationary. Simi- larly, find the mean and covariance functions for {▽Yt }, and determine whether or not {▽Yt } is stationary.
b) Find the values p,d, q so that {Yt } is an ARIMA(p,d, q) model.
Exercise 2. Consider a stationary process {Yt }. Prove that if P1 < 1/2, then the variance of ▽Yt is larger than the variance of Yt.
Exercise 3. Consider the following two models:
Yt = 0.9Yt - 1 + 0.09Yt -2 + et
Yt = Yt - 1 + et — 0.1et - 1 .
a) For each model, find the values p,d, q so that {Yt } is an ARIMA(p,d, q) model and determine whether or not each is stationary.
b) Under stationarity assumptions, for each model, determine its general linear process representation and its invertible representation.
Exercise 4. From a time series of 100 observations, we calculate r1 = —0.49, r2 = 0.31, r3 = —0.21, r4 = 0.11, and jrkj < 0.09 for k > 4. Based on this information alone, what model would we tentatively specify for the series? You must justify your answer.
Exercise 5. The sample ACF for a time series and its first diference, with n = 100, are given in the following table:
lag
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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ACF for Yt
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0.97
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0.97
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0.93
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0.85
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0.80
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0.71
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ACF for ▽Yt
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-0.42
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0.18
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-0.02
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0.07
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-0.10
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-0.09
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Based on the information in the table, what model would we tentatively specify for the series? You must justify your answer.