Abstract

Time series of counts occur in many real-life situations where they exhibit various forms of dispersion. To facilitate the modeling of such time series, this paper introduces a flexible first-order integer-valued non-stationary autoregressive (INAR(1)) process where the innovation terms follow a Conway-Maxwell Poisson distribution (COM-Poisson). To estimate the unknown parameters in this model, different estimation approaches based on likelihood and quasi-likelihood formulations are considered. From simulation experiments and a real-life data application, the Generalized Quasi-Likelihood (GQL) approach yields estimates with lower bias than the other estimation approaches.

Details

Title
Estimation Methods for a Flexible INAR(1) COM-Poisson Time Series Model
Author
Sunecher, Y 1 ; Khan, N Mamode 2 ; Jowaheer, V 3 

 University of Technology Mauritius, Pointe-Aux-Sables, Mauritius 
 University of Mauritius, Reduit, Mauritius 
 University of Mauritius, Reduit,Mauritius 
Pages
57-82
Publication year
2018
Publication date
2018
Publisher
De Gruyter Poland
ISSN
13369180
e-ISSN
13390015
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
3156240214
Copyright
© 2018. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.