LeastInfoKernel: Computes least information kernel smoothing

Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) References

Description

This script uses Entropy Pooling to compute least information kernel smoothing, as described in A. Meucci, "Personalized Risk Management: Historical Scenarios with Fully Flexible Probabilities" GARP Risk Professional, Dec 2010, p 47-51

Usage

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  LeastInfoKernel(Y, y, h2)

Arguments

Y

Matrix representing the macroeconomic indicator

y

scalar reprenting the target to which Y is expected to be close in the Generalized Empirical Distribution

h2

N X N matrix

Value

p list containing the vector of posterior probabilities and information about the optimization performance.

Author(s)

Xavier Valls flamejat@gmail.com

References

http://www.symmys.com/node/150 See Meucci script for "LeastInfoKernel.m"


R-Finance/Meucci documentation built on May 8, 2019, 3:52 a.m.