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The uncertainty of storm season changes: quantifying the uncertainty of autocovariance changepoints

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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>13/07/2015
<mark>Journal</mark>Technometrics
Issue number2
Volume57
Number of pages13
Pages (from-to)194-206
Publication StatusPublished
Early online date27/03/14
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

In oceanography, there is interest in determining storm season changes for logistical reasons such as equipment maintenance scheduling. In particular, there is interest in capturing the uncertainty associated with these changes in terms of the number and location of them. Such changes are associated with autocovariance changes. This paper proposes a framework to quantify the uncertainty of autocovariance changepoints in time series motivated by this oceanographic application. More specifically, the framework considers time series under the Locally Stationary Wavelet framework, deriving a joint density for scale processes in the raw wavelet periodogram. By embedding this density within a Hidden Markov Model framework, we consider changepoint characteristics under this multiscale setting. Such a methodology allows us to model changepoints and their uncertainty for a wide range of models, including piecewise second-order stationary processes, for example piecewise Moving Average processes.

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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Technometrics on 27/03/2014, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00401706.2014.902776