Confidence Interval Estimation for the Variance Parameter of Stationary Processes
Bor-Chung Chen, Robert G. Sargent
Management Science · 1990 · Volume 36 · Issue 2
Abstract
Asymptotic confidence interval estimators of the variance parameter σ 2 = lim n → ∞ n Var((1/ n ) ∑ n i = 1 X i ) are described in this paper for observations X 1 , X 2 ,…, X n from a strictly stationary phi-mixing stochastic process. They are based on asymptotic properties of the standardized time series of observations from the process. The new point and interval estimators for the variance parameter are compared to the classical batch means estimator. The results show that the new estimators have asymptotic properties that clearly dominate the classical estimator. Also, asymptotic confidence interval estimators for the ratio of two variance parameters representing two independent processes are discussed.
Keywords
simulation, stationary time series, confidence intervals, variance estimation
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