Variable Selection in Regression Model with AR(p) Error Terms Based on Heavy Tailed Distributions

Abstract: Parameter estimation and the variable selection are two pioneer issues in regression analysis. While traditional variable selection methods require prior estimation of the model parameters, the penalized methods simultaneously carry on parameter estimation and variable select. Therefore, penalized variable selection methods are of great interest and have been extensively studied in literature. However, most of the papers in literature are only limited to the regression models with uncorrelated error terms and normality assumption. In this study, we combine the parameter estimation and the variable selection in regression models with autoregressive error term by using different penalty functions under heavy tailed error distribution assumption. We conduct a simulation study and a real data example to show the performance of the estimators.