No. A counter example: Let {Xt: t ∈ Z} be iid with Student-t(3) distribution. Then {Xt: t ∈ Z} is weakly stationary. Howerver, Var(X²t) does not exist. Then {X²t: t ∈ Z} is not weakly stationary.
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A process is stationary if it satisfies the following three properties:
- EXt exists and does not depend on t. In our example, EXt = 0.
- Var(Xt) exists and does not depend on t. In our example, Var(Xt)=3.
- Cov(Xt, X_(t+h)) does not depdend on t. In our example Cov(Xt, X_{t+h}) =0 if h is not equal to 0.
So, we can conclude that {Xt: t ∈ Z} is weakly stationary. Howerver, Var(X²t) =EX^4t -(E(X²t))^2. For, t(3) distribution, it does not exits fourth order moments.
