QUESTION ONE - 20 MARKS
A first order moving average MA(2) is defined by X; = z + 012%-1 + 02%-2 Where y% ~
WN(0,o7) and the x :t = 1,2,3...,T are uncorrelated.
(a) Find
(i) Mean of the M7 A(2)
(ii) Variance of the MA(2)
(iii) Autocovariance of the MW A(2)
(iv) Autocorrelation of the MA(2)
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(b) is the MA(2) stationary? Explain your answer
[2 mks]
QUESTION TWO - 20 MARKS
Use the following data shown in the table below to answer the questions that follow.
Given X; =m; + R; such that R;-is the random component following a white noise with a
mean of zero and variance of o? and m- is the trend,
(a) Estimate the trend using exponential smoothing method with a smoothing parameter
a = 0.68.
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(b) Estimate the trend using a centred moving average of order 4
[6 mks]
(c) On the same axes, draw the graphs of the original set of data, detrended data (using the
exponential smoothing ) and detrended data (using the moving average)
[7 mks]
(d) Which estimates in (a) or (b) above is a better estimate above ((a) or (b)) and why. [2 mks]
QUESTION THREE - 22 MARKS
Consider AR(3) :¥; = $1Yi:-1 + 62Yi-2 + $3Yi-2 + €; where e& is identically independently
distributed (iid) as white noise.The Estimates the parameters can be found using Yule Walker
equations as
$1
d
Jj=l{
La
mn 1
e\\
pi
[a
p2 } and
o? =$3 yo[(1 — 62p2— 6p3i — 6il3) — 2¢0(d1P3 + $3)91 — 2616392]
where
h
dm — 2)(Xi-n — b)
Ph = Th =
o>
(Xt - pw)?
t1