Autori
Pretolani, Roberto
Ferrandi, Giulia
Micheletti, Alessandra
Aletti, Giacomo
Bertoni, Danilo
Cavicchioli, Daniele

Titolo
A weighted x2 test to detect the presence of a major change point in non-stationary Markov chains
Periodico
Statistical methods & applications : Journal of the Italian Statistical Society
Anno: 2020 - Volume: 29 - Fascicolo: 4 - Pagina iniziale: 899 - Pagina finale: 912

The problem of detecting a major change point in a stochastic process is often of interest in applications, in particular when the effects of modifications of some external variables, on the process itself, must be identified. We here propose a modification of the classical Pearson χ2 test to detect the presence of such major change point in the transition probabilities of an inhomogeneous discrete time Markov Chain, taking values in a finite space. The test can be applied also in presence of big identically distributed samples of the Markov Chain under study, which might not be necessarily independent. The test is based on the maximum likelihood estimate of the size of the ’right’ experimental unit, i.e. the units that must be aggregated to filter out the small scale variability of the transition probabilities. We here apply our test both to simulated data and to a real dataset, to study the impact, on farmland uses, of the new Common Agricultural Policy, which entered into force in EU in 2015.



SICI: 1618-2510(2020)29:4<899:AWXTTD>2.0.ZU;2-G

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