Arbeitspapier

A data-cleaning augmented Kalman filter for robust estimation of state space models

This article presents a robust augmented Kalman filter that extends the data-cleaning filter (Masreliez and Martin, 1977) to the general state space model featuring nonstationary and regression effects. The robust filter shrinks the observations towards their one-step-ahead prediction based on the past, by bounding the effect of the information carried by a new observation according to an influence function. When maximum likelihood estimation is carried out on the replacement data, an M-type estimator is obtained. We investigate the performance of the robust AKF in two applications using as a modeling framework the basic structural time series model, a popular unobserved components model in the analysis of seasonal time series. First, a Monte Carlo experiment is conducted in order to evaluate the comparative accuracy of the proposed method for estimating the variance parameters. Second, the method is applied in a forecasting context to a large set of European trade statistics series.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Hohenheim Discussion Papers in Business, Economics and Social Sciences ; No. 13-2015

Classification
Wirtschaft
Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes; State Space Models
Forecasting Models; Simulation Methods
Computational Techniques; Simulation Modeling
Subject
robust filtering
augmented Kalman filter
structural time series model
additive outlier
innovation outlier

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Marczak, Martyna
Proietti, Tommaso
Grassi, Stefano
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Universität Hohenheim, Fakultät Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
(where)
Stuttgart
(when)
2015

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:bsz:100-opus-11563
Last update
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Marczak, Martyna
  • Proietti, Tommaso
  • Grassi, Stefano
  • Universität Hohenheim, Fakultät Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften

Time of origin

  • 2015

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