Higher-order moments, cumulants and spectral densities of the NGINAR(1) process

Abstract

The motivation for time series with geometric marginal distributions arises from noting that the Poisson distribution is not always suitable for the modeling and analysis of integer-valued time series. The NGINAR(1) process that has been introduced by Ristić et al. (2009) represents a class of such time series. Joint higher-order (factorial) moments and cumulants with some other related statistical measures of the NGINAR(1) process are constructed. Also, the spectral and bispectral density functions of this process are investigated, including their nonparametric estimators, using the multitapering method. A real data example of the nonparametric multitaper spectral estimates is investigated, with a discussion of the results obtained.