On the sample autocovariance of a Lévy driven moving average process when sampled at a renewal sequence
We consider a Lévy driven continuous time moving average process X sampled at random times which follow a renewal structure independent of X. Asymptotic normality of the sample mean, the sample autocovariance, and the sample autocorrelation is established under certain conditions on the kernel and the random times. We compare our results to a classical non-random equidistant sampling method and give an application to parameter estimation of the Lévy driven Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process.
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