This article studies autoregressive (AR) models assuming innovations with scale mixtures of skew-normal (SMSN) distributions, an attractive and flexible family of probability distributions. A Bayesian analysis considering informative prior distributions is presented. Comprehensive simulation studies are performed to support the performance of the proposed model and methods. The proposed methods are also applied on a real-time series data which has previously been analysed under Gaussian and Student-t AR models.
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