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Diagnostic testing of univariate time series models
Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139, U.S.A.
The portmanteau statistic for testing the adequacy of an autoregressive-moving average model is based on the first m autocorrelations of the residuals from the fitted model. This paper examines the properties of this test for various choices of m. A modification which allows the use of small values of m is shown to result in a more powerful test. The Lagrange multiplier statistic (Godfrey, 1979) and a test statistic examined by Newbold (1980) are also discussed.
Key Words: Autoregressive-moving average model Lagrange multiplier test Portmanteau test Residual autocorrelation Time series model checking