Conditional scale function estimate in the presence of unknown conditional quantile function

Abstract

Standard approach for modeling and understanding the variability of statistical data or, generally, dependant data, is often based on the mean variance regression models. However, the assumptions employed on standardized residuals may be too restrictive, in particular, when the data
follows heavy-tailed distribution with probably infinite variance. This paper considers the problem of nonparametric estimation of conditional scale function of time series, based on quantile regression methodology of Koenker and Bassett (1978). We use a flexible model introduced in Mwita (2003), that makes no moment assumptions, and discuss an estimate which we get by inverting a kernel estimate of the conditio