On Equal Predictive Ability and Parallelism of Self-Exciting Threshold Autoregressive Model

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F. I. Ugwuowo
E. C. Uzochukwu
T. E. Ugah

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Several authors have developed statistical procedures for testing whether two models are equivalent. In this work, we not only present the notion of equivalence but also extend this to a measure of predictive ability of a time series following a stationary self-exciting threshold autoregressive (SETAR) process. A test is developed for equal predictive ability and a proposition and lemma given and proved. Illustrative examples are given to show how to conduct the test which can help the practitioner to avoid incorrect assessment of the accuracy of a forecast.

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Ugwuowo, F., Uzochukwu, E., & Ugah, T. (2025). On Equal Predictive Ability and Parallelism of Self-Exciting Threshold Autoregressive Model. Benin Journal of Statistics, 7(1), 1– 16. https://www.bjs-uniben.org/index.php/home/article/view/43

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