Gaussian Likelihood of Continuous-Time ARMAX Models When Data Are Stocks and Flows at Different Frequencies

For purposes of maximum likelihood estimation, we show how to compute the Gaussian likelihood function when the data are generated by a higher-order continuous-time vector ARMAX model and are observed as stocks and flows at different frequencies. Continuous-time ARMAX models are analogous to discrete-time autoregressive moving-average models with distributed-lag exogenous variables. Stocks are variables observed at points in time and flows are variables observed as integrals over sampling intervals. We derive the implied state-space model of the discrete-time data and show how to use it to compute the Gaussian likelihood function with Kalman-filtering, prediction-error, decomposition of the data.

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