Sample moments of the autocorrelations of moving average processes and a modification to bartlett'sasymptotic variance formula
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods
- Vol. 9 (14) , 1473-1481
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03610928008827975
Abstract
In this paper we express the sample autocorrelations for a moving average process of order q as a function of its own theoretical autocorrelations and the sample autocorrelations for the generating white noise series. Approximate analytic expressions are then obtained forthe moments of the sample autocorrelations of the moving average process. Using these expressions, together with numerical evidence, we show that Bartlett's asymptotic formula for the variance of the sample autocorrelations of moving average processes, which is used widely in identifying these processes, is a large overestimate when considering finitesample sizes. Our approach is for motivational purposes and so is purely formal, the amount of mathematics presented being kept to a minimum.Keywords
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