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I have time series, and I know the models underlying this time series. So, for example, first 100 points are generated with model $H_1$, next 50 with model $H_2$ and so on.

The problem is: I am interested only in long shifts of model. In other words, I want to detect events that involve > 10 points, but I know that these large events can contain extra-small model shifts, like:

50 points with $H_0$, 15 points with $H_1$, 1 point with $H_2$, 10 points with $H_1$, 2 points with $H_0$, 20 points with $H_1$. I do not want to detect these small events within the large model shift.

If I will try to calculate likelihood ratio for the segment that contains micro-shifts, my ratio will be slightly shifted. I want to say: each point have a probability of .99 to be generated by one of the $H$ models and .01 probability to be a complete noise, outlier. I know how to calculate likelihood ratio in case if an outlier was generated by some distribution, but I do not know the distribution of outliers.

The question is: how to write likelihood ratio formula for the point, taking into account that with probability 0.01 the point is meaningless, generated with unknown distribution without any constraints?

German Demidov
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