Sur les tests lisses d'ajustement dans le context des series chronologiques

Several phenomena from natural and social sciences rely on distribution’s assumption among which the normal distribution is the most popular. The validity of that assumption is useful to setting up forecast intervals or for checking model adequacy of the underlying model. The goodness-of-fit procedures are tools to assess the adequacy of the data’s underlying assumptions. Autoregressive and moving average time series models are often used to find the mathematical behavior of these phenomena from natural and social sciences, and especially in the finance area. These models are based on some assumptions including normality distribution for the innovations. Normality assumption may be helpful for some testing procedures. Furthermore, stronger conclusions can be drawn from the adjusted model if the white noise can be assumed Gaussian. In this work, goodness-of-fit tests for checking normality for the innovations from autoregressive moving average time series models are proposed for both univariate and multivariate cases (ARMA and VARMA models).  In our first project, a smooth test of normality for ARMA time series models with unknown mean based on a least square type estimator is proposed. We derive the asymptotic null distribution of the test statistic. The result here is an extension of the paper of Ducharme et Lafaye de Micheaux (2004), where they supposed the mean known and equal to zero. We use the least square type estimator proposed by Brockwell et Davis (1991, section 10.8) and we provide a rigorous proof that it is almost surely convergent. We show that the covariance matrix of the test is nonsingular regardless if the mean is known. We have also studied a data driven approach for the choice of the dimension of the family and we gave a finite sample approximation of the null distribution. Finally, the finite and asymptotic sample properties of the proposed test statistic are studied via a small simulation study.  In the second project, goodness-of-fit tests for checking multivariate normality for the innovations from vector autoregressive moving average time series models are proposed. Since these time series models may rely on a large number of parameters, structured parameterization of the functional form is allowed. The methodology also relies on the smooth test paradigm and on families of orthonormal functions with respect to the multivariate normal density. It is shown that the smooth tests converge to convenient chi-square distributions asymptotically. An important special case makes use of Hermite polynomials, and in that situation we demonstrate that the tests are invariant under linear transformations. We observed that the test is not invariant under linear transformations with Legendre polynomials. A consistent data driven method is discussed to choose the family order from the data. In a simulation study, exact levels are studied and the empirical powers of the smooth tests are compared to those of other methods. Finally, an application to real data is provided, specifically on Canadian labour market data and annual global temperature.  These works were exposed at several meeting (see for example Tagne, Duchesne and Lafaye de Micheaux (2013a, 2013b, 2014) for more details). A paper based on the first project is submitted in a refereed journal (see Duchesne, Lafaye de Micheaux et Tagne (2016)).

Keyphrases: Goodness-of-fit test, Neyman’s smooth test, Orthogonal polynomials, Time series, Normality test, ARMA model, VARMA model