Consistent Order Selection under Non-Identifiability and Dependence
不可识别与依赖情形下的一致阶数选择
We provide sufficient conditions for the consistency of penalized least squares procedures that select the order (dimension) of a regression model from a sequence of nested classes, allowing for dependent, martingale-difference errors. The main contribution is to relax the classical identifiability requirement: parameters indexing classes larger than the true order need not be identified, provided the additional, excess directions admit a linear approximation to the truth in…