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Causal Vector Autoregression Enhanced with Covariance and Order Selection

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  • Marianna Bolla

    (Department of Stochastics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 1111 Budapest, Hungary)

  • Dongze Ye

    (Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA)

  • Haoyu Wang

    (Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA)

  • Renyuan Ma

    (Department of Statistics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA)

  • Valentin Frappier

    (UFR Sciences and Techniques, Nantes University, 44035 Nantes, France)

  • William Thompson

    (Lindner College of Business, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA)

  • Catherine Donner

    (Data Science and Analytics Institute, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA)

  • Máté Baranyi

    (Department of Stochastics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 1111 Budapest, Hungary)

  • Fatma Abdelkhalek

    (Department of Statistics, Mathematics, and Insurance, Faculty of Commerce, Assiut University, Assiut Governorate 71515, Egypt)

Abstract

A causal vector autoregressive (CVAR) model is introduced for weakly stationary multivariate processes, combining a recursive directed graphical model for the contemporaneous components and a vector autoregressive model longitudinally. Block Cholesky decomposition with varying block sizes is used to solve the model equations and estimate the path coefficients along a directed acyclic graph (DAG). If the DAG is decomposable, i.e., the zeros form a reducible zero pattern (RZP) in its adjacency matrix, then covariance selection is applied that assigns zeros to the corresponding path coefficients. Real-life applications are also considered, where for the optimal order p ≥ 1 of the fitted CVAR ( p ) model, order selection is performed with various information criteria.

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  • Marianna Bolla & Dongze Ye & Haoyu Wang & Renyuan Ma & Valentin Frappier & William Thompson & Catherine Donner & Máté Baranyi & Fatma Abdelkhalek, 2023. "Causal Vector Autoregression Enhanced with Covariance and Order Selection," Econometrics, MDPI, vol. 11(1), pages 1-30, February.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jecnmx:v:11:y:2023:i:1:p:7-:d:1079607
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