INARMA Modeling of Count Time Series

Abstract

While most of the literature about INARMA models (integer-valued autoregressive moving-average) concentrates on the purely autoregressive INAR models, we consider INARMA models that also include a moving-average part. We study moment properties and show how to efficiently implement maximum likelihood estimation. We analyze the estimation performance and consider the topic of model selection. We also analyze the consequences of choosing an inadequate model for the given count process. Two real-data examples are presented for illustration.