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Análise do Valor-p Determinado pela Estatística τ na Aplicação do Teste de Dickey-Fuller Aumentado

ABSTRACT

In this paper we evaluate how much influence the number of selected lags has in the p-value obtained from the statistic considered in an augmented Dickey-Fuller test (ADF). Three experiments with different series sizes were carried out considering the presence (or not) of a constant and/or trend, and also different number of lags. Autoregressive models (AR1) are used in the data generating process through the Monte Carlo method, considering different values for the coefficient associated with the first lag. After the application of the ADF test, we calculate the proportion of times when the null hypothesis was rejected in each scenario, and perform an analysis of variance (considering chi-square statistic) to verify the influence of the number of selected lags in the p-value. Results show that if a unit root is verified, then the test presents a good performance, regardless of the number of lags. However, the same was not observed in cases where the time series does not present a unit root.

Keywords:
stationarity; unit root; time series; ADF test

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