rugarch (version 1.5-3)

ugarchfilter-methods: function: Univariate GARCH Filtering

Description

Method for filtering a variety of univariate GARCH models.

Usage

ugarchfilter(spec, data, out.sample = 0, n.old=NULL, rec.init = 'all',
trunclag = 1000, ...)

Value

A uGARCHfilter object containing details of the GARCH filter.

Arguments

data

A univariate data object. Can be a numeric vector, matrix, data.frame, zoo, xts, timeSeries, ts or irts object.

spec

A univariate GARCH spec object of class uGARCHspec with the fixed.pars argument having the model parameters on which the filtering is to take place.

out.sample

A positive integer indicating the number of periods before the last to keep for out of sample forecasting (as in ugarchfit function).

n.old

For comparison with uGARCHfit models using the out.sample argument, this is the length of the original dataset (see details).

rec.init

The recursion initialization method (see ugarchfit for explanation).

trunclag

The truncation lags for the binomial expansion in the FIGARCH model.

...

For the multiplicative component sGARCH model (mcsGARCH), the additional argument ‘DailyVar’ is required and should be an xts object of the daily forecasted variance to use with the intraday data.

Author

Alexios Ghalanos

Details

The n.old argument is optional and indicates the length of the original data (in cases when this represents a series augmented by newer data). The reason for using this is so that the old and new datasets agree since the original recursion uses the sum of the residuals to start the recursion and therefore is influenced by new data. For a small augmentation the values converge after x periods, but it is sometimes preferable to have this option so that there is no forward looking information contaminating the study.

See Also

For specification ugarchspec, fitting ugarchfit, forecasting ugarchforecast, simulation ugarchsim, rolling forecast and estimation ugarchroll, parameter distribution and uncertainty ugarchdistribution, bootstrap forecast ugarchboot.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
data(sp500ret)
ctrl = list(RHO = 1,DELTA = 1e-8,MAJIT = 100,MINIT = 650,TOL = 1e-6)
spec = ugarchspec(variance.model = list(model = "eGARCH", garchOrder = c(1,1)),
		mean.model = list(armaOrder = c(1,1), include.mean = TRUE),
		distribution.model = "std")
egarch.fit = ugarchfit(data = sp500ret[,1,drop=FALSE], spec = spec,
		solver = "solnp", solver.control = ctrl)

spec = ugarchspec(variance.model = list(model = "eGARCH", garchOrder = c(1,1)),
		mean.model = list(armaOrder = c(1,1), include.mean = TRUE),
		distribution.model = "std", fixed.pars = as.list(coef(egarch.fit)))
egarch.filter = ugarchfilter(data = sp500ret[,1,drop=FALSE], spec = spec)
}