astMLE: Fitting function for Asymmetric Student-t distribution

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Description

Method for fitting an AST distribution to a univariate data series by Maximum Likelihood Estimation, returns an ast object.

Usage

astMLE(data, start_pars = c(), fixed_pars = c(), solver = c("nlminb",
  "nloptr", "Rsolnp"), solver_control = list(), symmetric = FALSE)

Arguments

data	a univariate data object to be fitted
start_pars	a named numeric vector of starting parameters for the optimization algorithm, not all parameters are needed
fixed_pars	a named numeric vector of parameters to be kept fixed during the optimization routine, not all parameters are needed
solver	solver used for MLE, one of 'nlminb', 'nloptr', 'Rsolnp', default is 'nlminb'
solver_control	list of control arguments passed to the solver
symmetric	a logical argument, when TRUE, the function fits an SST distribution(Symmetric Student-t, nu1 = nu2) instead, default to FALSE

Details

The astMLE function fits an AST distribution to a univariate data series by estimating the distribution parameters through Maximum Likelihood Estimation.

For details of the list of control arguments, please refer to nlminb, nloptr::nloptr, Rsolnp::solnp

Value

A ast object(S3), the components of the object are:

data	the univariate data object for the AST distribution to be fitted
solver	the solver called
solver_control	the list of control argumetns passed to the solver called
start_pars	named numeric vector of starting parameters used
fixed_pars	named numeric vector of fixed parameters used
symmetric	logical argument controlling the symmetry of tail parameters in the MLE
solver_result	output of the called solver
fitted_pars	named vector of fitted arguemnts of the AST distribution
objective	the optimal log-likelihood value obtained by the solver
time_elapsed	the time elapesed for the MLE routine
message	the message of convergence status produced by the called solver
standard_errors	standard errors of the fitted parameters

References

Zhu, D., & Galbraith, J. W. (2010). A generalized asymmetric Student-t distribution with application to financial econometrics. Journal of Econometrics, 157(2), 297-305.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304407610000266 https://econpapers.repec.org/paper/circirwor/2009s-13.htm

Examples

pars <- c(0.12, 0.6, 0.6, 6, 5)
data <- rast(1000, pars = pars)
fit <- astMLE(data)
summary(fit)
moments(fit)
fitted(fit)
se(fit)
objective(fit)
plot(fit)

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