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Improving the autodependogram using the Kulback-Leibler divergence

Methodology 2015-01-29 v3 Statistics Theory Applications Computation Statistics Theory

Abstract

The autodependogram is a graphical device recently proposed in the literature to analyze autodependencies. It is defined computing the classical Pearson chi-square statistics of independence at various lags in order to point out the presence lag-depedencies. This paper proposes an improvement of this diagram obtained by substituting the chi-square statistics with an estimator of the Kulback-Leibler divergence between the bivariate density of two delayed variables and the product of their marginal distributions. A simulation study, on well-established time series models, shows that this new autodependogram is more powerful than the previous one. An application to financial data is also shown.

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@article{arxiv.1306.5006,
  title  = {Improving the autodependogram using the Kulback-Leibler divergence},
  author = {Luca Bagnato and Lucio De Capitani and Antonio Punzo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.5006},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

We have decided to withdraw the paper due to a crucial error in equation (9), that is in the definition of the p-value. This invalidates the results reported into the manuscript

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