From: Adrian Trapletti (a.trapletti@bluewin.ch)
Date: Fri 20 Jul 2001 - 22:19:54 EST
Message-id: <3B5821EA.B213B64@bluewin.ch>
1. Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 19:56:34 -0500
2. From: Vadim Ogranovich <vograno@arbitrade.com>
3. Subject: [R] estimation of drift of continuous random walk
4.
5. Dear R-Users,
6.
7. I have the following problem to solve and I wonder if there are
means in R
8. that can help me.
9.
10. At irregular time intervals I observe a random walk process, Y,
with
11. time-varying drift. I assume that the drift, D, is a (linear)
function of
12. some parameter X. The goal is to estimate D(X).
13.
14. I could regress Y_{t+dt} - Y_{t} ~ X, but it's probably not
appropriate
15. since Var(Y_{t+dt} - Y_{t}) is not constant (actually in theory it
is
16. proportional to dt).
(If the model is correctly specified) the above OLS regression should
give a consistent estimator for the drift. Using a WLS regression (in R
use lm(...,weights=...)) with weights proportional to 1/Var(Y_{t+dt} -
Y_{t}) = 1/dt (in this example) should produce a "better" estimator.
1.
2. Any suggestions?
3.
4. Thank you,
5. Vadim
6.
7.
best
Adrian
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