This paper obtains the joint limiting distribution of residuals and squared residuals of a general time-series model. Based on this, we propose a mixed portmanteau statistic for testing the adequacy of fitted time-series models. In some cases, it is shown that this statistic can be simply...

The varying-coefficient single-index models (VCSIMs) form a class of very flexible and general dimension reduction models, which contain many important regression models such as partially linear models, pure single-index models, partially linear single-index models, varying-coefficient...

It is generally agreed that respiratory disease is closely related to ambient air quality and weather conditions. Besides, hygiene related factors such as the public health measures by the government and possible personal awareness in the community can also affect the spread of infectious...

In this paper, we propose a diagnostic technique for checking heteroscedasticity based on empirical likelihood for the partial linear models. We construct an empirical likelihood ratio test for heteroscedasticity. Also, under mild conditions, a nonparametric version of Wilk's theorem is derived,...

We have derived the predictive distributions of future responses and the regression matrix in the multivariate linear regression model, under the singular or nonsingular matrix variate elliptically contoured distribution with noninformative prior, with respect to the Hausdorff measure. The...

Wavelets are applied to detect the jumps in a heteroscedastic autoregressive model. The empirical wavelet coefficients are defined respectively for the conditional mean and the conditional variance of the model. It is shown that the wavelet coefficients exhibit high peaks near the jump points,...

Wavelets are applied to identify the time delay and thresholds in open-loop threshold autoregressive models. Based on Truong and Stone's lemma, the empirical wavelet coefficients of the data are defined. The time delay and thresholds are detected and then estimated by checking the variation of...

In this paper, we consider the general growth curve model with multivariate random effects covariance structure and provide a new simple estimator for the parameters of interest. This estimator is not only convenient for testing the hypothesis on the corresponding parameters, but also has higher...