# What happens when a time series is multiplied by an iid error

Let's say say I have a standard AR(1) process, apart from the fact that is multiplied by the $$ε_i$$~$$iid (0,1)$$.

Would this affect the independence of the the AR(1) series? My intuition is no because this would just have a multiplicative effect and $$ε_i$$ is iid.

I'm very new to time series and getting increasingly confused the more I think about it!

• To clarify, you mean each point in the process is multiplied by an independent Gaussian? And the "independence" you mean is the conditional independence of any two points in the process given a point between them? If so I believe the answer is yes, but it only requires independence of the multiplicative errors and not identical distribution. – Sheridan Grant Aug 17 '19 at 1:38

If you write $$e_{t}y_{t}$$ where y follows an AR process, since e is a iid white noise independent from y and its conditional mean is equal to the unconditional mean of 0 for every t, then you have:
• a conditional mean of $$E(ey_{t} | I_{t-1})= E(e | I_{t-1})E(y_{t} | I_{t-1}) =0$$ as $$E(e_{t} | I_{t-1})= E(e_{t} )=0$$
• a condition variance of $$E((y_{t}e_{t})^{2} | I_{t-1})-E(y_{t}e_{t} | I_{t-1})^{2} = E((y_{t}e_{t})^{2} | I_{t-1})= E(y_{t}^{2} | I_{t-1})$$
• an unconditional mean of $$E(ey_{t})= 0$$
• and an uncondition variance of $$E((y_{t}e_{t})^{2})-E(y_{t}e_{t})^{2} = E(y_{t}^2)$$