Poisson Autoregression

doi:10.1198/jasa.2009.tm08270

Poisson Autoregression

2009-12-01

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Konstantinos Fokianos *

DOI：10.1198/jasa.2009.tm08270

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In this article we consider geometric ergodicity and likelihood-based inference for linear and nonlinear Poisson autoregression. In the linear case, the conditional mean is linked linearly to its past values, as well as to the observed values of the Poisson process. This also applies to the conditional variance, making possible interpretation as an integer-valued generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity process. In a nonlinear conditional Poisson model, the conditional mean is a nonlinear function of its past values and past observations. As a particular example, we consider an exponential autoregressive Poisson model for time series. Under geometric ergodicity, the maximum likelihood estimators are shown to be asymptotically Gaussian in the linear model. In addition, we provide a consistent estimator of their asymptotic covariance matrix. Our approach to verifying geometric ergodicity proceeds via Markov theory and irreducibility. Finding transparent conditions for proving ergodicity turns out to be a delicate problem in the original model formulation. This problem is circumvented by allowing a perturbation of the model. We show that as the perturbations can be chosen to be arbitrarily small, the differences between the perturbed and nonperturbed versions vanish as far as the asymptotic distribution of the parameter estimates is concerned. This article has supplementary material online.

Keywords:

phi irreducibility

Asymptotic theory

Count data

Generalized linear model

Geometric ergodicity

Integer generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity

Likelihood

Noncanonical link function

Observation-driven model

Poisson regression

Poisson Autoregression

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