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Uncorrelated white noise need not be iid
Example
Let be iid Rademacher variables, , and define . Then is strictly stationary, centered, has variance , and has zero covariance at every nonzero lag, but and are dependent. Thus the white-noise assumption used for the ARMA spectrum does not itself imply iid innovations.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A two-sided iid family of Rademacher random variables and .
Identical distribution and IID families: iid means mutual independence and a common marginal law.
Independent random elements have product joint law: finite subfamilies of the iid sequence have product joint laws, unchanged by a common shift of the indices.
Expectations factor over finite products of independent random variables: expectations of products of integrable functions of independent variables factor.
Moments, variance, and covariance on a probability space defines the means, variances, and covariances used below.
Strict and weak stationarity for integer-indexed time series, Autocovariance and sample autocovariance, and Linear processes, white noise, and ARMA models: strict stationarity is shift invariance of finite-dimensional laws; weak stationarity uses the constant mean and lag-only autocovariance; white noise is centered with finite positive variance and zero nonzero-lag covariance.
Verification
Every finite tuple of values is the same coordinatewise measurable function of a finite tuple of iid values. By [F1]–[F2], shifting all indices leaves the latter tuple's law unchanged, so the finite-dimensional laws of are shift invariant. Thus is strictly stationary.
Independence and [F3] give and . For lag one, because is independent of the remaining factors and has mean zero. For lag , and use disjoint iid coordinates, so they are independent and centered and their covariance is zero. Negative lags have the same covariance by symmetry. Hence is weakly stationary and is white noise with variance .
Let and . Since , and . The event requires , so while . Therefore , proving that adjacent observations are dependent.
Depends on
- Linear processes, white noise, and ARMA models
- Strict and weak stationarity for integer-indexed time series
- Autocovariance and sample autocovariance
- Identical distribution and IID families
- Independent random elements have product joint law
- Expectations factor over finite products of independent random variables
- Moments, variance, and covariance on a probability space
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Sources
- Dewei Wang, STAT 720 Time Series Analysis, Section 2.1 and Theorem 3.1 (standard reference, not scraped)
- Nicolai Meinshausen, Time Series Analysis: Notes for the course HS 2022, Sections 2.1–2.2 (standard reference, not scraped)