Outlier detections in autoregressive models

This article proposes a new technique for detecting outliers in autoregressive models and identifying the type as either innovation or additive. This technique can be used without knowledge of the true model order, outlier location, or outlier type. Specifically, we perturb an observation to obtain the perturbation size that minimizes the resulting residual sum of squares (SSE). The reduction in the SSE yields outlier detection and identification measures. In addition, the perturbation size can be used to gauge the magnitude of the outlier. Monte Carlo studies and empirical examples are presented to illustrate the performance of the proposed method as well as the impact of outliers on model selection and parameter estimation. We also obtain robust estimators and model selection criteria, which are shown in simulation studies to perform well when large outliers occur.