ism_vcov: Compute variance covariance of Inverse 'Unified' Second...

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Compute variance covariance of Inverse 'Unified' Second Moment

Description

Computes the variance covariance matrix of the inverse unified second moment matrix.

Usage

ism_vcov(X,vcov.func=vcov,fit.intercept=TRUE)

Arguments

X	an n \times p matrix of observed returns.
vcov.func	a function which takes an object of class lm, and computes a variance-covariance matrix. If equal to the string "normal", we assume multivariate normal returns.
fit.intercept	a boolean controlling whether we add a column of ones to the data, or fit the raw uncentered second moment.

Details

Given p-vector x with mean \mu and covariance, \Sigma, let y be x with a one prepended. Then let \Theta = E\left(y y^{\top}\right), the uncentered second moment matrix. The inverse of \Theta contains the (negative) Markowitz portfolio and the precision matrix.

Given n contemporaneous observations of p-vectors, stacked as rows in the n \times p matrix X, this function estimates the mean and the asymptotic variance-covariance matrix of \Theta^{-1}.

One may use the default method for computing covariance, via the vcov function, or via a 'fancy' estimator, like sandwich:vcovHAC, sandwich:vcovHC, etc.

Value

a list containing the following components:

mu	a q = p(p+3)/2 vector of the negative Markowitz portfolio, then the vech'd precision matrix of the sample data
Ohat	the q \times q estimated variance covariance matrix.
n	the number of rows in X.
p	the number of assets.

Note

By flipping the sign of X, the inverse of \Theta contains the positive Markowitz portfolio and the precision matrix on X. Performing this transform before passing the data to this function should be considered idiomatic.

This function will be deprecated in future releases of this package. Users should migrate at that time to a similar function in the MarkowitzR package.

Author(s)

Steven E. Pav [e-mail]

References

Pav, S. E. "Asymptotic Distribution of the Markowitz Portfolio." 2013 https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.0557

See Also

sm_vcov, sr_vcov

Examples

X <- matrix(rnorm(1000*3),ncol=3)
# putting in -X is idiomatic:
ism <- ism_vcov(-X)
iSigmas.n <- ism_vcov(-X,vcov.func="normal")
iSigmas.n <- ism_vcov(-X,fit.intercept=FALSE)
# compute the marginal Wald test statistics:
ism.mu <- ism$mu[1:ism$p]
ism.Sg <- ism$Ohat[1:ism$p,1:ism$p]
wald.stats <- ism.mu / sqrt(diag(ism.Sg))

# make it fat tailed:
X <- matrix(rt(1000*3,df=5),ncol=3)
ism <- ism_vcov(X)
wald.stats <- ism$mu[1:ism$p] / sqrt(diag(ism$Ohat[1:ism$p,1:ism$p]))

if (require(sandwich)) {
 ism <- ism_vcov(X,vcov.func=vcovHC)
 wald.stats <- ism$mu[1:ism$p] / sqrt(diag(ism$Ohat[1:ism$p,1:ism$p]))
}

# add some autocorrelation to X
Xf <- filter(X,c(0.2),"recursive")
colnames(Xf) <- colnames(X)
ism <- ism_vcov(Xf)
wald.stats <- ism$mu[1:ism$p] / sqrt(diag(ism$Ohat[1:ism$p,1:ism$p]))

if (require(sandwich)) {
ism <- ism_vcov(Xf,vcov.func=vcovHAC)
 wald.stats <- ism$mu[1:ism$p] / sqrt(diag(ism$Ohat[1:ism$p,1:ism$p]))
}

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