Abstract:The use of ordinal patterns (OPs) for analyzing the dependence structure of univariate and continuously distributed processes has gained popularity in recent years. This research goes one step further and considers the transcripts being computed from successive OPs in the time series. Transcripts constitute a kind of ``difference'' between successive OPs and thus naturally relate to two algebraic distances between OPs, the Cayley and Kendall edit distances. The original time series is transformed into a sequence of transcripts or distances, respectively, and important stochastic properties thereof are derived. It is shown that these properties differ substantially among different types of original processes. This motivates the development of various statistics based on transcripts and edit distances in order to investigate the dependence structure of the original process. In particular, the asymptotic distribution of these statistics under the null hypothesis of serial independence is derived, which is then used to implement nonparametric tests for serial dependence. A simulation study shows that these novel dependence tests have appealing power properties, often outperforming former OP-based dependence tests. A concluding real-world data example illustrates the application and interpretation of the proposed approaches in practice.
| Subjects: | Methodology (stat.ME) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2605.25478 [stat.ME] |
| (or arXiv:2605.25478v1 [stat.ME] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.25478 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) |
From: Christian Weiß [view email]
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