er_backtest: Exceedance Residuals Backtest

In esback: Expected Shortfall Backtesting

Description

Tests whether the mean of the exceedance residuals, respectively the mean of the standardized exceedance residuals is zero.

Usage

er_backtest(r, q, e, s = NULL, B = 1000)

Arguments

r	A vector of returns.
q	A vector of Value-at-Risk forecasts.
e	A vector of Expected Shortfall forecasts.
s	A vector of volatility forecasts.
B	Number of bootstrap iterations

Value

Returns a list with the following components:

• pvalue_twosided_simple

• pvalue_onesided_simple

• pvalue_twosided_standardized

• pvalue_onesided_standardized

References

McNeil & Frey (2000)

Examples

data(risk_forecasts)
r <- risk_forecasts$r
q <- risk_forecasts$q
e <- risk_forecasts$e
s <- risk_forecasts$s
er_backtest(r = r, q = q, e = e, s = s)

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