We provide a direct proof for consistency and asymptotic normality of Gaussian maximum likelihood estimators for causal and invertible autoregressive moving-average (ARMA) time series models, which were initially established by Hannan [Journal of Applied Probability (1973) vol. 10, pp....

We suggest two improved methods for conditional density estimation. The rst is based on locally tting a log-linear model, and is in the spirit of recent work on locally parametric techniques in density estimation. The second method is a constrained local polynomial estimator. Both methods always...