Questions tagged [estimation]
The calculated approximation of a result which is usable even if input data may be incomplete or uncertain.
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Mean-variance portfolio optimization: methods for superior estimates of returns
Leaving aside the aspects related to the estimation of the variance component (all the latest techniques to compute a stable covariance matrix of a given set of assets such as simple shrinkage, Ledoit-...
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fiscal period end date
If a quarterly report is released tomorrow, is there any way to figure out the date the quarterly period ended without manually researching? Such as an API?
I think there is a deadline of 35/60 ...
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Neural Networks for Estimation of Unmarked Private Asset Returns from Market Data
Let's assume it is March and my illiquid private assets portfolio is only 50% marked for 12/31, but I want to get the most accurate estimate of my final return for the quarter ended on 12/31.
What is ...
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MLE error in R: initial value in 'vmmin' is not finite
I am trying to fit an ARIMA(1,1)-GARCH(1,1) model. I changed the starting values a lot but still its returning the same error.
Below is my code which contains two functions ...
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Estimating an GARCH(1,1) model? Long hand method
I am really trying to invest some time to estimate a GARCH(1,1) method, I know there is many statistical packages that will do this for me (Eviews, MATLAB, R), but I am trying to do this by hand, so ...
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How rapidly should estimated volatility and volume change for estimating market impact in small markets?
The cost of market impact is usually modeled as:
$$
\Delta{P} = \delta \sigma (\frac{Q}{V})^{1/2}
$$
Where:
$ \Delta{P} $ is the change in price of the asset caused by the transaction size $Q$
$\...
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Sample distribution of cross-sectional statistics of returns
Currently doing an application of VaR on sample of industry portfolios in the US. I have a matrix of $n$ industry portfolios with $m$ time-series observations. I calculate cross-sectionally (for each ...
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How accurate are Black-Scholes estimates of Vega, Volga, Vanna
Wikipedia provides analytical formulas for calculating Greeks. I can get Delta, Gamma, Theta all from Bloomberg. I need Vega, Volga, Vanna for my research. Should I use these analytical formulas for ...
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Estimating realised gains given growth rate and churn
If one can estimate that the value of an investment portfolio will grow at $g$% per annum, and can estimate that approximately $c$% of that portfolio will be churned each year (sold and reinvested), ...
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How to have an unbiased estimation of the standard deviation when using rolling returns?
I want to estimate the weekly standard deviation of a lognormal process in a usual setup.
$$
\frac{dS}{S} = (\dots) dt + \sigma dW
$$
where $\sigma$ is a constant and $W$ a brownian motion.
The ...
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How to compute a single Value-at-Risk (a single quantile) of portfolio returns taking into account correlation between individual returns?
Introduction
My goal is to retrieve a single Value-at-Risk (VaR) of a N(0, H) random variable $X$ at the $\alpha \in (0,1)$ confidence level where H is a known d-dimensional positive definite matrix ...
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Informal definition of the almost complete convergence
I'm searching for the informal definition of the almost complete convergence (P. L. Hsu and H. Robbins (1947), Dugué (1955)), which means a definition without any mathematics formula.
Thank you for ...
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Which program for a DCC-MIDAS model?
for a thesis research, I plan to use a DCC-MIDAS model. The program I was working with (STATA) is not able to run this.
Do you have any suggestions as to which program is best for this analysis?
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How to estimate lambda for Jump-Diffusion Process from Empirical data?
So, I have really no idea how to go about this, but how would I go about choosing sensible parameter values for a basic jump-diffusion simulation, namely $\lambda$ ?
For example, getting the average ...
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Fama French- typical time lag
I have daily prices of 400 stocks for the last 10 years. I have to create each month a portfolio of 20 stocks that minimizes variance with 2 approaches:
1) Estimate volatility with a GARCH(1,1) model ...
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Estimation Risk-Neutral Variance of Returns
I am trying to find a method which allows me to estimate $Var_{\mathbb{Q}}\left(\frac{S_{t_{i+1}}}{S_{t_i}}\right)$ where $S$ denotes the price process of an underlying stock (which has to be assumed ...
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Estimation of right truncated poisson process
I have following problem:
Imagine I generate large number of homogenous poisson process sample paths (by sample path I mean a sequence of arrival times $\tau_i$ all with the same intensity. However ...
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Electric power price parameter estimation
currently I am working through the paper of Tino Kluge "Pricing Swing Options and other Electricity Derivatives" to get a better understanding about the power markets.
The author establishes methods ...
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Estimating parameters of the Cox-Ingersoll-Ross model using CLS in R
I'm working on a project where I need to estimate the parameters of the CIR model. In the particular case, the CIR model is used to model cumulated capital calls for a private equity fund.
The data ...
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Understanding pooled VAR model
I encountered a paper by Vuolteenaho (2002) in which he uses pooled VAR model. I have some troubles understanding the idea. He uses firm level variables (log returns, ROE, etc.) and ultimately he ...
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Bond yield to maturity vs current interest yield
How close is yield to maturity usually to current interest yield? Can I use yield to maturity to approximate current interest yield of a bond index?
I am trying to calculate bond index price returns ...
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How to estimate bond price returns via an index?
Let's say I have a corporate bond, for which I know current yield, modified duration, coupon and maturity. I want to estimate how it would have performed under certain market conditions by looking at ...
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How do I estimate the volatiliy of my portfolio with an estimator that requires High, Low, Open, etc
I have obtained the daily returns of my portfolio $R^{port}_t$ using a certain strategy.
Now I want to estimate the realized volatility $\sigma^{port}_t$ using the past 60 days. An obvious way to do ...
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Monte Carlo volatily
I was wondering if we could do a forecast on volatility using monte carlo on an underlying asset. For example EUR/USD :
Simulating a lot of possible paths on 1 year
then calculate the volatilty for ...
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Estimate American-style option delta from similar options
I have a data set which looks something like this, referring to American-style put and call options:
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Joint estimation of GARCH models with ARMA terms in the conditional mean: a necessity?
Supposing I am using the following models to forecast conditional volatility of index returns, whereby In-sample data is 1996-2007 and out of sample data is 2007-2012, using GARCH type models.
I have ...
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Estimating implied volatility of an index component with no vanilla options market
There are liquid vanilla options trading on an index of 20 equity components.
The question is how to price an option on one of the index components, knowing that there are no options trading on that ...
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Approximating an SDE for Volatility Estimation
Consider the SDE
$$
dT(t) = ds(t) + a(s(t) - T(t))dt + \sigma dW(t)
$$
where $s(t)$ is a deterministic function that turns out to be the long-term mean (this SDE is used to model daily temperature, so ...
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How to approximate the Carr-Madan decomposition formula?
I have came across the excellent answer.
I'm looking for a dicrete approximation of the Carr-Madan decomposition formula of the function $f(F_T)$ of the terminal futures price by taking a static ...
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Combine EWMA or ARCH model with estimator other than squared returns
Currently I use the EWMA model with the squared logarithmic returns as proxy estimator for the volatility, in order to forecast the volatility one step ahead in an intraday scenario (time frame is a ...
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What volatility estimator for continuous data and small time window?
I want to know which volatility estimator should I use for the following scenario:
I am implementing a market making bot and therefore I need to make estimations of the volatility of the price in ...
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How to estimate the variance of this stochastic process?
I have an unobservable stochastic quantity $\lambda(t)$, which I analytically know the variance of, that is
$$\text{Var}(\lambda(t))= \frac{\theta \sigma^2}{2\kappa}$$
My goal is to get an estimate ...
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Streaming update of the GARCH(1,1) model
Given the estimate of GARCH(1, 1) model parameters I observe the new price. How to update the estimate with this new information.
Let's assume I know the coefficients that maximize the likelihood ...
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Compare two time series with different frequencies
Lets say I have two time series $X_t$ and $Y_{t,q}$. As an examples, lets say $X_t$ is a series that measures year over year changes in the level of output of a good (say number of widgets). So $X_t = ...
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Relationship between in-sample and out-sample periods length
I have two general questions regarding "in-sample fitting vs. out-of-sample backtesting" kind of analyses. Is there any relationship between the length of the data collected for in-sample fitting ($a$)...
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What is Estimation Risk - VAR Backtest
Simple Question. Can someone explain please: What is Estimation Risk in Value at Risk Backtesting
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Package for multivariate Garch Vech model for R?
I`m new to programming and searching a package for R which inherents the estimation for a Vech Garch(1,1). This is a multivariate Garch model which forms the residuals and the covariance matrix from a ...
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Degrees of freedom in calculating significance of GARCH coefficients
I am trying to determine the significance of coefficients of a GARCH model by calculate the p-values using the following Matlab formula:
pvalues = 2*(1-tcdf(abs(t),n-v)),
where $t$ is the t-stat, $...
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How to fit exogenous + GARCH Model In Python?
I am studying a textbook of statistics / econometrics, using Python for my computational needs. I have encountered GARCH models and my understanding is that this is a commonly used model.
In an ...
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GJR-GARCH with $\alpha = 0$ as parameter estimate
I am estimating a GJR-GARCH(1,1) model with variance targeting in R. As data I am using returns on some stock indices. While calculating the GARCH models I obtain $\alpha=0$ for some indices. From ...
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Skewed Generalized Error Distribution's (SGED) pdf
I want to use the SGED distribution of Theodossiou for GARCH estimation, however, I am struggling to understand which is the correct pdf function of the distribution. Let me just say that the ...
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How to estimate today's closing price?
I'm working on interday trading algorithm and I have a basic question:
How can I estimate today's closing price? I need it to predict tomorrow closing price. Should I use the price few moments before ...
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Log-likelihood of skew-t distribution
I am trying to estimate GARCH models with the use of Hansen's (1994) skew-t distribution. I am using matlab's ARMAX-GARCH-K toolbox, where the log-likelihood is calculated as:
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Imposing MLE restrictions by logistic mapping
I am doing some Maximum Likelihood Estimation with a density that has time-varying parameters. I am using the fmincon function in Matlab, but I do not know how to ...
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Estimating Parameters - Vasicek
The Vasicek model for the short rate $r_t$ is given by the SDE
$$
dr_t = \alpha(\beta - r_t)dt + \sigma dW_t,
$$
where $W_t$ is a Brownian motion under the physical measure.
I'd like to compute bond ...
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What is the preferred GARCH method in practice?
My advance apologies, if this question is too naive or basic. Please be patient with my first experiences with SE; ask for clarification, if needed.
I recognize there are many (often-criticized) ...
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How to estimate probable seeling pricegiven OHLC data for backtesting?
I'm relative new to this, so I might be asking something that doesn't make sense. Here is my scenario:
I have intraday day at 1 minute intervals. This data has ohlc data and I want to compute for any ...
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How to calculate the estimation error of portfolio variance using propagation results?
I am trying to find a conservative approximation for the propagated estimation error of a investment portfolio's variance (comprising two assets), given we know the estimation error for the variance ...
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How are Quandl monthly S&P500 earnings estimates derived?
Can someone explain how the monthly earnings estimates are derived for S&P500?
Quandl sources multpl.com, who state:
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2-step estimation of DCC GARCH model in Python
Embedded in this thread are multiple questions. I'm currently im the process of implementing a DCC GARCH forecast model on quantopian (a python-powered trading platform).
The two step consists of ...
