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PortfolioAnalytics (version 2.0.0)

custom.covRob.TSGS: Compute returns mean vector and covariance matrix with custom.covRob.TSGS

Description

This is a function uses the TSGS function from GSE package to compute the Two-Step Generalized S-Estimate, a robust estimate of location and scatter for data with cell-wise and case-wise contamination.

Usage

custom.covRob.TSGS(R, ...)

Value

a list contains mean and covariance matrix of the stock return matrix

Arguments

R

xts object of asset returns

...

parameters for covRob.TSGS

References

Claudio Agostinelli, Andy Leung, "Robust estimation of multivariate location and scatter in the presence of cellwise and casewise contamination", 2014.