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Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 1:00pm

Issa Zakeri

Drexel University

Location

Drexel University

Korman Center 245

Refreshments will be served at 12:30 in Korman Center 245

Most problems in time series go far beyond serial correlation and variability or volatility clustering. It is known that major cyclical variables display asymmetric behavior during various phases of the cycle. Time reversibility is a broad concept of asymmetry or symmetry in time series. In this talk, we consider time reversibility and prediction of stationary autoregressive processes with finite variance. We obtain a simple test for time reversibility. We also discuss time reversibility and prediction of stable processes.