Adjacent-category models for ordinal time series and their application to climate-dependent spruce budworm defoliation dynamics
有序时间序列的相邻类别模型及其在气候相关云杉卷叶蛾落叶动态中的应用
This work proposes an adjacent-category autoregressive model for time series of ordinal variables. We apply this model to dendrochronological records to study the effect of climate on the intensity of spruce budworm defoliation during outbreaks in two sites in eastern Canada. The model's parameters are estimated using the maximum likelihood approach. We show that this estimator is consistent and asymptotically Gaussian distributed. We also propose a Portemanteau test for…