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Sampling distribution for single-regression Granger causality estimators
A. J. Gutknecht, L. Barnett
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We show for the first time that, under the null hypothesis of vanishing Granger causality, the single-regression Granger-Geweke estimator converges to a generalised χ² distribution, which may be well approximated by a Γ distribution. We show that this holds too for Geweke's spectral causality averaged over a given frequency band, and derive explicit expressions for the generalised χ² and Γ-approximation parameters in both cases. We present an asymptotically valid Neyman-Pearson test based on the single-regression estimators, and discuss in detail how it may be usefully employed in realistic scenarios where autoregressive model order is unknown or infinite. We outline how our analysis may be extended to the conditional case, point-frequency spectral Granger causality, state-space Granger causality, and the Granger causality F-test statistic. Finally, we discuss approaches to approximating the distribution of the single-regression estimator under the alternative hypothesis.
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