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Another Look at AR(1)

Dynamical Systems 2007-12-29 v2 Probability Statistics Theory Statistics Theory

Abstract

Given a stationary first-order autoregressive process X_t (with lag-one correlation rho satisfying |rho|<1), we examine the Central Limit Theorem for (1/n)*ln |X_1...X_n| and compute variances to high precision. Given a nonstationary process X_t (with |rho|>1), we examine instead (1/n)*ln|X_n| and study the distribution of ln|X_n|-n*ln|rho|.

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@article{arxiv.0710.5419,
  title  = {Another Look at AR(1)},
  author = {Steven R. Finch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.5419},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

8 pages; introduced corrections in section 3

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