ON THE ROBUSTNESS OF MIXTURE MODELS IN THE PRESENCE OF HIDDEN MARKOV REGIMES WITH COVARIATE-DEPENDENT TRANSITION PROBABILITIES
协变量依赖转移概率的隐马尔可夫状态下,混合模型的稳健性
This article studies the robustness of quasi-maximum-likelihood estimation in hidden Markov models when the regime-switching structure is misspecified. Specifically, we examine the case where the data-generating process features a hidden Markov regime sequence with covariate-dependent transition probabilities, but estimation proceeds under a simplified mixture model that assumes regimes are independent and identically distributed. We show that the parameters governing the…