WAVELETS FOR ESTIMATING THE FRACTIONAL PARAMETER IN NON-STATIONARY ARFIMA PROCESSES

S. R. C. Lopes (Brazil) and A. Pinheiro (Brazil)

Received July 9, 2009

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Keywords and phrases: Haar system, time series, CWT, long range dependence.