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Global Warming Statistical Analysis, Jared Skinner Jan 2019

Global Warming Statistical Analysis, Jared Skinner

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

This paper will investigate global warming and its effects on natural disasters. I will review the historic movements of climate change and activism, as well as the current discussions surrounding global warming. Secondly, I will examine various datasets, paying attention to the severity and frequency of specific natural disasters. I will then touch briefly on the topic of catastrophe modeling as it relates to the increased risk and losses associated with the discussed natural disasters and how those put the problem of global warming in a framework which financial and government institutions can grasp. I will also be analyzing economic …


Advances In Portmanteau Diagnostic Tests, Jinkun Xiao Sep 2016

Advances In Portmanteau Diagnostic Tests, Jinkun Xiao

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

Portmanteau test serves an important role in model diagnostics for Box-Jenkins Modelling procedures. A large number of Portmanteau test based on the autocorrelation function are proposed for a general purpose goodness-of-fit test. Since the asymptotic distributions for the statistics has a complicated form which makes it hard to obtain the p-value directly, the gamma approximation is introduced to obtain the p-value. But the approximation will inevitably introduce approximation errors and needs a large number of observations to yield a good approximation. To avoid some pitfalls in the approximation, the Lin-Mcleod Test is further proposed to obtain a numeric solution to …


Persistence And Anti-Persistence: Theory And Software, Justin Quinn Veenstra Feb 2013

Persistence And Anti-Persistence: Theory And Software, Justin Quinn Veenstra

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

Persistent and anti-persistent time series processes show what is called hyperbolic decay. Such series play an important role in the study of many diverse areas such as geophysics and financial economics. They are also of theoretical interest. Fractional Gaussian noise (FGN) and fractionally-differeneced white noise are two widely known examples of time series models with hyperbolic decay. New closed form expressions are obtained for the spectral density functions of these models. Two lesser known time series models exhibiting hyperbolic decay are introduced and their basic properties are derived. A new algorithm for approximate likelihood estimation of the models using frequency …