Estimation of Time Series Models via Robust Wavelet Variance

Abstract

A robust approach to the estimation of time series models is proposed. Taking froma new estimation method called the Generalized Method of Wavelet Moments (GMWM)which is an indirect method based on the Wavelet Variance (WV), we replace the classicalestimator of the WV with a recently proposed robust M-estimator to obtain a robustversion of the GMWM. The simulation results show that the proposed approach can beconsidered as a valid robust approach to the estimation of time series and state-spacemodels.