Does stationarity of AR(p) imply innovations are i.i.d.?

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Note: I have previously asked this on CrossValidated here. Since I didn't get an answer to my question I'm posting it on this community.

My lecture notes on time series analysis give the following definition:

A stochastic process $(X_t)_{t\in\mathbb{Z}}$ is called autoregressive of order $p$ if it satisfies: $$X_t=\phi_1X_{t-1}+...+\phi_{t-p}X_{t-p}+W_t.$$ Where $W_t$ is independent from $(X_s)_{s<t}$, and $\phi_p \neq 0$.

Then it is stated that if the process is weak-sense stationary it follows that the $W_t$'s are identically distributed. How does this follow? Or, if incorrect, could you give me a counterexample?