Most recent changepoint detection in Panel data

Bardwell, Lawrence and Fearnhead, Paul Nicholas and Eckley, Idris Arthur and Smith, Simon and Spott, Martin (2019) Most recent changepoint detection in Panel data. Technometrics, 61 (1). pp. 88-98. ISSN 0040-1706

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Abstract

Detecting recent changepoints in time-series can be important for short-term prediction, as we can then base predictions just on the data since the changepoint. In many applications we have panel data, consisting of many related univariate time-series. We present a novel approach to detect sets of most recent changepoints in such panel data which aims to pool information across time-series, so that we preferentially infer a most recent change at the same time-point in multiple series. Our approach is computationally efficient as it involves analysing each time-series independently to obtain a profile likelihood like quantity that summarises the evidence for the series having either no change or a specific value for its most recent changepoint. We then post-process this output from each time-series to obtain a potentially small set of times for the most recent changepoints, and, for each time, the set of series which has their most recent changepoint at that time. We demonstrate the usefulness of this method on two data sets: forecasting events in a telecommunications network and inference about changes in the net asset ratio for a panel of US firms.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Technometrics
Uncontrolled Keywords:
/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2600/2611
Subjects:
?? breakpointschangepointsforecastingpanel datastructural breaksmodelling and simulationapplied mathematicsstatistics and probability ??
ID Code:
89768
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Deposited On:
18 Jan 2018 11:40
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Yes
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Published
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17 Dec 2023 01:38