Author : Konstantinos Metaxoglou
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis Maximum Likelihood Estimation of VARMA Models Using a State-Space EM Algorithm by : Konstantinos Metaxoglou
Download or read book Maximum Likelihood Estimation of VARMA Models Using a State-Space EM Algorithm written by Konstantinos Metaxoglou and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We introduce a state-space representation for vector autoregressive moving-average models that enables maximum likelihood estimation using the EM algorithm. We obtain closed-form expressions for both the E- and M-steps; the former requires the Kalman filter and a fixed-interval smoother, and the latter requires least squares-type regression. We show via simulations that our algorithm converges reliably to the maximum, whereas gradient-based methods often fail because of the highly nonlinear nature of the likelihood function. Moreover, our algorithm converges in a smaller number of function evaluations than commonly used direct-search routines. Overall, our approach achieves its largest performance gains when applied to models of high dimension. We illustrate our technique by estimating a high-dimensional vector moving-average model for an efficiency test of California's wholesale electricity market.