A goodness-of-fit test for time series with long-range dependence

Abstract

We propose a test statistic for goodness of fit in time series with slowly decaying serial correlations. The asymptotic distribution of the test statistic, originally proposed by Milhoj for time series with smooth spectra, turns out to be the same, under the null hypothesis, even if the spectrum has a pole at 0. In particular, the test is suitable to detect lack of independence in the observations, or estimated residuals, if the first few correlations are small but the decay of the correlations is slow.