Forward Moving Average Representations for MA Processes of Finite Order: Multivariate Stationary and Periodically Correlated

Abstract

Soltani and Mohammadpour (2006) observed that in general the backward and forward moving average coefficients, correspondingly, for the multivariate stationary processes, unlike the univariate processes, are different. This has stimulated researches concerning derivations of forward moving average coefficients in terms of the backward moving average coefficients. In this article we develop a practical procedure whenever the underlying process is a multivariate moving average (or univariate periodically correlated) process of finite order. Our procedure is based on two key observations: order reduction (Li, 2005) and first-order analysis (Mohammadpour and Soltani, 2010).