Weak Convergence of the Sequential Empirical Processes of Residuals in ARMA Models

Abstract

This paper studies the weak convergence of the sequential empirical process $\widehat{K}_n$ of the estimated residuals in ARMA$(p, q)$ models when the errors are independent and identically distributed. It is shown that, under some mild conditions, $\widehat{K}_n$ converges weakly to a Kiefer process. The weak convergence is discussed for both finite and infinite variance time series models. An application to a change-point problem is considered.