We study large-sample properties of likelihood ratio tests of the unit root hypothesis in an autoregressive model of arbitrary, finite order. Earlier research on this testing problem has developed likelihood ratio tests in the autoregressive model of order one, but resorted to a plug-in approach...

We consider the likelihood ratio test (LRT) process related to the test of the absence of QTL (a QTL denotes a gene with quantitative effect on a trait) on the interval [0, T] representing a chromosome. The observation is the trait and the composition of the genome at some locations called...

Let <InlineEquation ID="IEq3"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$$\mathcal{M }_{\underline{i}}$$</EquationSource> </InlineEquation> be an exponential family of densities on <InlineEquation ID="IEq4"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$$[0,1]$$</EquationSource> </InlineEquation> pertaining to a vector of orthonormal functions <InlineEquation ID="IEq5"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$$b_{\underline{i}}=(b_{i_1}(x),\ldots ,b_{i_p}(x))^\mathbf{T}$$</EquationSource> </InlineEquation> and consider a problem of estimating a density <InlineEquation ID="IEq6"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$$f$$</EquationSource> </InlineEquation> belonging to such family for...</equationsource></inlineequation></equationsource></inlineequation></equationsource></inlineequation></equationsource></inlineequation>

Suppose one has a sample of high-frequency intraday discrete observations of a continuous time random process, such as foreign exchange rates and stock prices, and wants to test for the presence of jumps in the process. We show that the power of any test of this hypothesis depends on the...

Bootstrap likelihood ratio tests of cointegration rank are commonly used because they tend to have rejection probabilities that are closer to the nominal level than the rejection probabilities of asymptotic tests. The effect of bootstrapping the test on its power is largely unknown. We show that...

We suggest improved tests for cointegration rank in the vector autoregressive (VAR) model and develop asymptotic distribution theory and local power results. The tests are (quasi-)likelihood ratio tests based on a Gaussian likelihood, but of course the asymptotic results apply more generally....