Conditional independence testing with a single realization of a multivariate nonstationary nonlinear time series
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| author | Wieck-Sosa, Michael Haddad, Michel F. C. Ramdas, Aaditya |
| author_facet | Wieck-Sosa, Michael Haddad, Michel F. C. Ramdas, Aaditya |
| contents | Identifying relationships among stochastic processes is a core objective in many fields, such as economics. While the standard toolkit for multivariate time series analysis has many advantages, it can be difficult to capture nonlinear dynamics using linear vector autoregressive models. This difficulty has motivated the development of methods for causal discovery and variable selection for nonlinear time series, which routinely employ tests for conditional independence. In this paper, we introduce the first framework for conditional independence testing that works with a single realization of a nonstationary nonlinear process. We also show how our framework can be used to test for independence. The key technical ingredients of our framework are time-varying nonlinear regression, estimation of local long-run covariance matrices of products of error processes, and a distribution-uniform strong Gaussian approximation. |
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| spellingShingle | Conditional independence testing with a single realization of a multivariate nonstationary nonlinear time series Wieck-Sosa, Michael Haddad, Michel F. C. Ramdas, Aaditya Methodology Statistics Theory Machine Learning Identifying relationships among stochastic processes is a core objective in many fields, such as economics. While the standard toolkit for multivariate time series analysis has many advantages, it can be difficult to capture nonlinear dynamics using linear vector autoregressive models. This difficulty has motivated the development of methods for causal discovery and variable selection for nonlinear time series, which routinely employ tests for conditional independence. In this paper, we introduce the first framework for conditional independence testing that works with a single realization of a nonstationary nonlinear process. We also show how our framework can be used to test for independence. The key technical ingredients of our framework are time-varying nonlinear regression, estimation of local long-run covariance matrices of products of error processes, and a distribution-uniform strong Gaussian approximation. |
| title | Conditional independence testing with a single realization of a multivariate nonstationary nonlinear time series |
| topic | Methodology Statistics Theory Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.21647 |