Parameter Estimation and Hypothesis Testing in Spectral Analysis of Stationary Time Series [Paperback]

. . ) (under the assumption that the spectral density exists). For this reason, a vast amount of periodical and monographic literature is devoted to the nonparametric statistical problem of estimating the function tJ( T) and especially that of leA) (see, for example, the books [4,21,22,26,56,77,137,139,140,]). However, the empirical value t;; of the spectral density I obtained by applying a certain statistical procedure to the observed values of the variables Xl' . . . , X , usually depends in n a complicated manner on the cyclic frequency). . This fact often presents difficulties in applying the obtained estimate t;; of the function I to the solution of specific problems rela ted to the process X . Theref ore, in practice, the t obtained values of the estimator t;; (or an estimator of the covariance function tJ~( T? are almost always smoothed, i. e. , are approximated by values of a certain sufficiently simple function 1 = 1I Properties of Maximum Likelihood Function for a Gaussian Time Series.- 1. General Expression for the log Likelihood.- 2. Asymptotic Expression for the Principal Part of the log Likelihood.- 3. The Asymptotic Differentiability of Gaussian Distributions with Spectral Densities Separated from Zero.- 4. The Asymptotic Differentiability of Gaussian Distributions with Spectral Densities Possessing Fixed Zeros.- Appendix 1.- Appendix 2.- Appendix 3. Remarks and Bibliography.- II Estimation of Parameters by Means of P. Whittles Method.- 1. Asymptotic Maximum Likelihood Estimators.- 2. Properties of Asymptotic Maximum Likelihood Estimators in the Case of Strictly Positive Spectral Density.- 3. Consistency, Asymptotic Normality, and Asymptotic Efficiency of the Estimator $$\mathop \theta \limits^ \sim $$ in the Case of Spectral Density Possessing Fixed Zeros.- 4. Examples of Determination of Asymptotic Maximum Likelihood Estimators.- 5. Asymptotic Maximum Likelihood Estimator of the Spectrum of Processes Distorted by White Noise.- 6. Least-SquarelSE