TY - JOUR TI - Testing for serial independence in vector autoregressive models AU - Meintanis, S.G. AU - Ngatchou-Wandji, J. AU - Allison, J. JO - Statistical Papers PY - 2018 VL - 59 TODO - 4 SP - 1379-1410 PB - Springer New York LLC SN - 0932-5026 TODO - 10.1007/s00362-018-1039-4 TODO - null TODO - We consider tests for serial independence of arbitrary finite order for the innovations in vector autoregressive models. The tests are expressed as L2-type criteria involving the difference of the joint empirical characteristic function and the product of corresponding marginals. Asymptotic as well as Monte-Carlo results are presented. © 2018, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature. ER -