On consistency of minimum description length model selection for piecewise autoregressions
分段自回归模型中最小描述长度选择的一致性
The Auto-PARM (Automatic Piecewise AutoRegressive Modeling) procedure, developed by Davis et al. (2006), uses the minimum description length (MDL) principle to estimate the number and locations of structural breaks in a non-stationary time series. Consistency of this model selection procedure has been established when using conditional maximum (Gaussian) likelihood variance estimates. In contrast, the estimate of the number of change-points is inconsistent in general if…