Does a white noise process have constant variance by definition?

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If you'll look up for the definition of a (discrete) white noise process on the web, you'll find some sources that say:

"white noise is defined by zero mean, finite and constant variance, zero autocorrelation"

and roughly the same amount of them that say:

"white noise is defined by zero mean, finite variance, zero autocorrelation".

In the latter (e.g. the Wikipedia page), "white noise" encompasses also the case of heteroskedastic white noise - where the variance isn't constant. Obviously, stationarity is dropped.

Which of these two is "the" standard definition? Am I missing something?