“…Least squares estimation has been largely used Quinn, 1981, 1982;Tsay, 1987), and is often taken as benchmark for modern advances. Furthermore, since LS estimates are strongly consistent and under suitable conditions they obey the central limit theorem, they often serve as starting point for iterative schemes such as maximum likelihood (ML) (Nicholls and Quinn, 1982;Tjøstheim, 1986;Allal and Benmoumen, 2013), or in combination with other procedures such as estimating functions (EF) (Thavaneswaran and Abra 1988;Abdullah et al, 2011) and bootstrap methods (Prášková, 2003;Fink and Kreiss, 2013). Note that for ML estimation, autoregressive coefficients and residuals are also typically assumed to be jointly normal.…”