The Quality of Lagged Products and Autoregressive Yule–Walker Models as Autocorrelation Estimates

The sample autocorrelation function is defined by the mean lagged products (LPs) of random observations. It is the inverse Fourier transform of the raw periodogram. Both contain the same information, and the quality of the full-length sample autocorrelation to represent random data is as poor as that of a raw periodogram. The autoregressive (AR)...

Finite-Sample Bias Propagation in Autoregressive Estimation With the Yule–Walker Method

The Yule-Walker (YW) method for autoregressive (AR) estimation uses lagged-product (LP) autocorrelation estimates to compute an AR parametric spectral model. The LP estimates only have a small triangular bias in the estimated autocorrelation function and are asymptotically unbiased. However, using them in finite samples with the YW method for AR...