Nonparametric tests of the Markov hypothesis in continuous-time models
连续时间模型中马尔可夫假设的非参数检验
We propose several statistics to test the Markov hypothesis for $β$-mixing stationary processes sampled at discrete time intervals. Our tests are based on the Chapman--Kolmogorov equation. We establish the asymptotic null distributions of the proposed test statistics, showing that Wilks's phenomenon holds. We compute the power of the test and provide simulations to investigate the finite sample performance of the test statistics when the null model is a diffusion process,…