Mixed Models as an Alternative to Farima

Abstract

We construct a new process using a fractional Brownian motion and a fractional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process of the Second Kind as building blocks. We consider the increments of the new process in discrete time and, as a result, we obtain a more parsimonious process with similar autocovariance structure to that of a FARIMA. In practice, variance of the new increment process is a closed-form expression easier to compute than that of FARIMA.