Erschienen in:
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology, 84 (2022) 5, Seite 1699-1725
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1111/rssb.12552
ISSN:
1467-9868;
1369-7412
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AbstractWe propose a novel and unified framework for change-point estimation in multivariate time series. The proposed method is fully non-parametric, robust to temporal dependence and avoids the demanding consistent estimation of long-run variance. One salient and distinct feature of the proposed method is its versatility, where it allows change-point detection for a broad class of parameters (such as mean, variance, correlation and quantile) in a unified fashion. At the core of our method, we couple the self-normalisation- (SN) based tests with a novel nested local-window segmentation algorithm, which seems new in the growing literature of change-point analysis. Due to the presence of an inconsistent long-run variance estimator in the SN test, non-standard theoretical arguments are further developed to derive the consistency and convergence rate of the proposed SN-based change-point detection method. Extensive numerical experiments and relevant real data analysis are conducted to illustrate the effectiveness and broad applicability of our proposed method in comparison with state-of-the-art approaches in the literature.