Testing for stationarity of functional time series in the frequency domain

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Title: Testing for stationarity of functional time series in the frequency domain
Authors: Aue, Alexander, van Delft, Anne
Publication Year: 2017
Collection: Statistics
Subject Terms: Statistics - Methodology, 62G99, 62H99 (primary), 62M10, 62M15, 91B84 (secondary)
More Details: Interest in functional time series has spiked in the recent past with papers covering both methodology and applications being published at a much increased pace. This article contributes to the research in this area by proposing a new stationarity test for functional time series based on frequency domain methods. The proposed test statistics is based on joint dimension reduction via functional principal components analysis across the spectral density operators at all Fourier frequencies, explicitly allowing for frequency-dependent levels of truncation to adapt to the dynamics of the underlying functional time series. The properties of the test are derived both under the null hypothesis of stationary functional time series and under the smooth alternative of locally stationary functional time series. The methodology is theoretically justified through asymptotic results. Evidence from simulation studies and an application to annual temperature curves suggests that the test works well in finite samples.
Comment: 63 pages, includes Online Supplement
Document Type: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1214/19-AOS1895
Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1701.01741
Accession Number: edsarx.1701.01741
Database: arXiv
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DOI:10.1214/19-AOS1895