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assetsMeanCov: Estimation of Mean and Covariances of Asset Sets

Description

A collection and description of functions which allow to estimate the mean and/or covariance matrix of a time series of assets by traditional and robust methods.

Usage

assetsMeanCov(x, 
    method = c("cov", "mve", "mcd", "MCD", "OGK", "nnve", "shrink", "bagged"), 
    check = TRUE, force = TRUE, baggedR = 100, sigmamu = scaleTau2, 
    alpha = 1/2, ...)

Arguments

alpha
when methode="MCD", a numeric parameter controlling the size of the subsets over which the determinant is minimized, i.e., alpha*n observations are used for computing the determinant. Allowed values are
baggedR
when methode="bagged", an integer value, the number of bootstrap replicates, by default 100.
check
a logical flag. Should the covariance matrix be tested to be positive definite? By default TRUE.
force
a logical flag. Should the covariance matrix be forced to be positive definite? By default TRUE.
method
a character string, whicht determines how to compute the covariance matix. If method="cov" is selected then the standard covariance will be computed by R's base function cov, if method="shrink"
sigmamu
when methode="OGK", a function that computes univariate robust location and scale estimates. By default it should return a single numeric value containing the robust scale (standard deviation) estimate. When m
x
any rectangular time series object which can be converted by the function as.matrix() into a matrix object, e.g. like an object of class timeSeries, data.frame, or mts.
...
[assetsMeanCov] - optional arguments to be passed to the underlying estimators. For details we refer to the manual pages of the functions cov.rob for arguments "mve" and mcd"} in the R package co