Abstract

Current procedures for estimating the parameters of [Formula: see text]th order vector autoregressive (VAR [Formula: see text]) model are usually based on assuming that the ensuing error distribution is multivariate normal. But there exists large body of evidence that several data encountered in real life are skewed; thereby making estimators derived based on normality assumption not suitable in such scenarios. This prompts for the search of appropriate methods for skewed distributions. Therefore, this article proposes estimators for the mean and covariance matrices of the [Formula: see text] model under multivariate skew- [Formula: see text]-normal (MSTN) distribution. Also, estimators for the shape and skewness parameters are provided. The expectation conditional maximization (ECM) and its extension the expectation conditional maximization either (ECME) algorithms are the tools used to derive the estimators. The performance of the estimators were examined through extensive simulations, and results show that they compete favourably with other numerical methods especially when the underlying distribution is skewed. The usefulness of our estimators was illustrated using a real data set on some US economic indicators. The VAR [Formula: see text] model under MSTN distribution provides a good fit, better than [Formula: see text] model under the assumption of normality.

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