Abstract
This paper proposes new tests for detecting the presence of a unit root in quite general time series models. Our approach is nonparametric with respect to nuisance parameters and thereby allows for a very wide class of weakly dependent and possibly heterogeneously distributed data. The tests accommodate models with a fitted drift and a time trend so that they may be used to discriminate between unit root nonstationarity and stationarity about a deterministic trend. The limiting distributions of the statistics are obtained under both the unit root null and a sequence of local alternatives. The latter noncentral distribution theory yields local asymptotic power functions for the tests and facilitates comparisons with alternative procedures due to Dickey & Fuller. Simulations are reported on the performance of the new tests in finite samples.
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Unit rootMathematicsSeries (stratigraphy)Nonparametric statisticsNuisance parameterStatisticsStatistical hypothesis testingNull hypothesisAsymptotic distributionLimitingUnit root testNull (SQL)Augmented Dickey–Fuller testEconometricsRegressionApplied mathematicsTime seriesCointegrationComputer scienceData mining
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- 1988
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- article
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- 75
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 335-346
- Citations
- 17460
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Peter C.B. Phillips,
Pierre Perrón
(1988).
Testing for a unit root in time series regression.
Biometrika
, 75
(2)
, 335-346.
https://doi.org/10.1093/biomet/75.2.335
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- 10.1093/biomet/75.2.335