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Assessinglongmemorycharacteristicsofenergyprices
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Theweaknessoftheaboveprocedureisthechoiceofk1.Ononehandlarge
k1isdesired,ontheotherhandforlargek1onlyfewvaluesoftheR/Sstatistic
canbecalculated.TomitigatethisproblemtheLeastAbsoluteDeviation(LAD)
isusedtoestimateparametersoftheline.
GewekeandPorter-Hudak
12proposedsemi-parametrictest(GPH)basedon
spectraldensityfunction.Thespectraldensityfunctionforfractaldifferenced
processisgivenby:
f
(
ω
)
=
[
4
sin
2
(
ω
2
)]
df
u
t
(
ω
)
,
(8)
where
ω
isaFourierfrequency,
f
u
t
(
ω
)
isaspectraldensityfunctionofthepro-
cess(5).
Thelongmemoryparameterd(8)isestimatedbasedonregressionfunction:
ln
f
(
ω
j
)
=
B
d
[
4
sin
2
(
ω
2
j
)]
+
ε
j
(9)
forj=1,2,…nj(T);nj(T)=T
α
.
GewekeandPorter-Hudak
13showed,thatif0<α<1,thendhasnormal
distributionforlongtimeseries:
d
~
N
d
,
6
n
j
=
f
1
(
U
π
j
2
U
)
2
;
U
j
=
ln[
4
sin
2
(
ω
2
j
)]
.
Byassumingthatd=0(processhasnolongmemory),GPHteststatisticis
givenby:
t
d
=
0
=
d
6
n
j
=
f
1
(
U
π
j
2
U
)
2
1
2
.
(10)
12J.Geweke,S.Porter-Hudak:TheEstimationandApplicationofLongMemoryTimeSeries
Models."JournalofTimeSeriesAnalysis”1983,No.4,p.221-237.
13Ibidem.