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Statistica Sinica 16(2006), 1255-1271





LONG-MEMORY WAVELET MODELS


Nan-Jung Hsu


National Tsing-Hua University


Abstract: This article presents a novel long-memory wavelet model for approximating a stationary long-memory process. The proposed model is constructed in the wavelet domain in which the dependence structure is characterized by the variances of wavelet coefficients at different scales. This model can be easily incorporated into more complex model structures such as a generalized linear model. For inference, maximum likelihood estimation is derived. In a simulation study, we show that the modeling via wavelets has a good performance both in estimating the long-memory parameter and in predicting future observations under various long-memory processes. For illustration, the methodology is applied to modeling the Nile River data.



Key words and phrases: Discrete wavelet transform, long-range dependence, spectral density.

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