auto_hpfj: Automatic selection of the optimal HP filter with jumps
Description
The regularization constant for the HP filter with jumps is the
maximal sum of standard deviations for the level disturbance. This value
has to be passed to the hpfj function. The auto_hpfj runs
hpfj on a grid of regularization constants and returns the output
of hpfj selected by the chosen information criterion.
The same ouput as the hpjf function corresponding to the best
choice according to the selected information criterion.
Arguments
y
numeric vector cotaining the time series;
grid
numeric vector containing the grid for the argument maxsum
of the hpfj function;
ic
string with information criterion for the choice: the default is
"bic" (simulations show this is the best choice), but also "hq", "aic" and "aicc"
are available;
edf
logical scalar: TRUE (default) if the number of degrees of freedom
should be computed as "effective degrees of freedom" (Efron, 1986) as opposed
to a more traditional way (although not supported by theory) when FALSE.