Câu hỏi: Which of the following sets of characteristics would usually best describe an autoregressive process of order 3 (i.e. an AR(3))?

A. A slowly decaying acf, and a pacf with 3 significant spikes

B. A slowly decaying pacf and an acf with 3 significant spikes

C. A slowly decaying acf and pacf

D.  An acf and a pacf with 3 significant spikes

Câu 1: If a regression equation contains an irrelevant variable, the parameter estimates will be

A. Consistent and unbiased but inefficient

B. Consistent and asymptotically efficient but biased

C. Inconsistent

D. Consistent, unbiased and efficient

Câu 2: What is the optimal three-step ahead forecast from the AR(2) model given in question 14?

A. -0.1

B. 0.27

C. -0.34

D. -0.31

Câu 3: If a residual series is negatively autocorrelated, which one of the following is the most likely value of the Durbin Watson statistic?

A. Close to zero

B. Close to two

C. Close to four

D. Close to one

Câu 4: Consider a series that follows an MA(1) with zero mean and a moving average coefficient of 0.4. What is the value of the autocorrelation function at lag 1?

A. 0.4

B. 0.34

C. 1

D. It is not possible to determine the value of the autocovariances without knowing the disturbance variance

Câu 5: If there are three variables that are being tested for cointegration, what is the maximum number of linearly independent cointegrating relationships that there could be?

A. 0

B. 1

C. 2

D. 3

Câu 6: If the number of non-zero eigenvalues of the pi matrix under a Johansen test is 2, this implies that

A. There are 2 linearly independent cointegrating vectors

B. There are at most 2 linearly independent cointegrating vectors

C. There are 3 variables in the system

D. There are at least 2 linearly independent cointegrating vectors