Maximum Likelihood Type Estimation for Nearly Nonstationary Autoregressive Time Series
近非平稳自回归时间序列的最大似然型估计
The nearly nonstationary first-order autoregression is a sequence of autoregressive processes $y_n(k + 1) = \phi_ny_n(k) + \varepsilon(k + 1), 0 \leq k \leq n$, where the $\varepsilon(k)$'s are iid mean zero shocks and the autoregressive coefficient $\phi_n = 1 - \beta/n$ for some $\beta > 0$, so that $\phi_n \rightarrow 1$ as $n \rightarrow \infty$. We consider a class of maximum likelihood type estimators called $M$ estimators, which are not necessarily robust. The…