The standard asymptotic theory of likelihood ratio tests assumes that you are testing a submodel, which is not the case here. Moreover, even when testing submodels, there are other assumptions that often are not met in the case of DLMs - the typical example being hypothesised values on the boundary of the parameter space.
An informal, but commonly used approach to compare DLMs is to compare their predictive performance. There are many ways to measure it. You can find some of them in the book "dynamic linear models with R". BTW, in the package dlm you find functions for MLE, forecasting, one-step-ahead forecast errors (which is what you need to compute predictive performance), and more... HTH, Giovanni > Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:32:21 +0200 > From: "Erb Philipp (erbp)" <e...@zhaw.ch> > Sender: r-help-boun...@r-project.org > Precedence: list > Thread-topic: [R-SIG-Finance] Evaluating/comparing dynamic linear model > Thread-index: AcpHsn7VAX05YB13ShmB34Y7FCJyDAALTuuA > > What kind of filter are you using? Since your models are expressed > in state space form I suggest that you fit your models by maximizing > the log likelihood function of the Kalman filter output (see > e.g. FKF-package). Using the obtained log likelihood values you > might perform a likelihood ratio test to test the hypothesis whether > model 1 explains yt "better" than model 2. > > HTH, Phil > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: r-sig-finance-boun...@stat.math.ethz.ch > [mailto:r-sig-finance-boun...@stat.math.ethz.ch] Im Auftrag von R_help Help > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 8. Oktober 2009 02:55 > An: r-sig-fina...@stat.math.ethz.ch; r-help@r-project.org > Betreff: [R-SIG-Finance] Evaluating/comparing dynamic linear model > > Hi, > > I have two DLM model specifications (x[t] and y[t] are univariate): > > MODEL1: > y[t] = b[t]x[t]+e[t], e[t] ~ N(0,v1^2) > b[t] = b[t-1]+eta[t], eta[t] ~ N(0,w1^2) > > MODEL2: > y[t] = a[t]+e[t], e[t] ~ N(0,v2^2) > a[t] = a[t-1]+eta[t], eta[t] ~ N(0,w2^2) > > I run the filter through data recursively to obtain state variables > for each model. However, how do I know if b[t]x[t] in MODEL1 is > different from MODEL2? In other words, how do I know if x[t] makes a > difference in explaining dynamic of y[t]? > > Another question is that how do I compare MODEL1 and MODEL2? From > model specification point of view, how can one say that MODEL1 is > better than MODEL2? Any suggestion/reference would be greatly > appreciated. Thank you. > > ac > > _______________________________________________ > r-sig-fina...@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-finance > -- Subscriber-posting only. > -- If you want to post, subscribe first. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
