Outliers in dynamic factor models

Details Outliers in dynamic factor models Outliers in dynamic factor models

2007-10-19

arxiv.org/abs/0710.3676v1

Electronic Journal of Statistics 2007, Vol. 1, 392-432

Mathematics

Statistics Theory

Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/07-EJS082 the Electronic Journal of Statistics (http://www.i-journals.org/ejs/) by t

Scientific paper

10.1214/07-EJS082

Dynamic factor models have a wide range of applications in econometrics and applied economics. The basic motivation resides in their capability of reducing a large set of time series to only few indicators (factors). If the number of time series is large compared to the available number of observations then most information may be conveyed to the factors. This way low dimension models may be estimated for explaining and forecasting one or more time series of interest. It is desirable that outlier free time series be available for estimation. In practice, outlying observations are likely to arise at unknown dates due, for instance, to external unusual events or gross data entry errors. Several methods for outlier detection in time series are available. Most methods, however, apply to univariate time series while even methods designed for handling the multivariate framework do not include dynamic factor models explicitly. A method for discovering outliers occurrences in a dynamic factor model is introduced that is based on linear transforms of the observed data. Some strategies to separate outliers that add to the model and outliers within the common component are discussed. Applications to simulated and real data sets are presented to check the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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