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    Question

    For the following MA (3) process  y t  = 

    μ  +  Ε t  +  θ 1 Ε t -1  +  θ 2 Ε t -2  +  θ 3 Ε t -3  , where  σ t  is a zero mean white noise process with variance  σ 2
    A ACF = 0 at lag 3 Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B ACF =0 at lag 5 Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C ACF =1 at lag 1 Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D ACF =0 at lag 2 Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E ACF = 0 at lag 3 and at lag 5 Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    MA(q) process only has memory of length q. This means that all of the autocorrelation coefficients will have a value of zero beyond lag q. This can be seen by examining the MA equation, and seeing that only the past q disturbance terms enter into the equation, so that if we iterate this equation forward through time by more than q periods, the current value of the disturbance term will no longer affect y. Finally, since the autocorrelation function at lag zero is the correlation of y at time t with y at time t (i.e. the correlation of y_t with itself), it must be one by definition.

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