A selection criterion for piecewise stationary long-memory models

This article considers the problem of estimating multiple structural breaks in a long-memory FARIMA signal. The number of break points as well as their locations, the orders and the parameters of each regime are assumed to be unknown. A selection criterion based on the minimum description length (MDL) principle is proposed and is compared favorably with two existing criteria by means of Monte Carlo simulations.

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