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pick_Omegas: Pick covariance matrices

Description

pick_Omegas picks the covariance matrices \(\Omega_{m} (m=1,..,M)\) from the given parameter vector so that they are arranged in a 3D array with the third dimension indicating each component.

Usage

pick_Omegas(p, M, d, params)

Arguments

p

a positive integer specifying the autoregressive order of the model.

M

a positive integer specifying the number of mixture components.

d

the number of time series in the system.

params

a real valued vector specifying the parameter values. Should be size \(((M(pd^2+d+d(d+1)/2+1)-1)x1)\) and have form \(\theta\)\( = \)(\(\upsilon\)\(_{1}\), ...,\(\upsilon\)\(_{M}\), \(\alpha_{1},...,\alpha_{M-1}\)), where:

  • \(\upsilon\)\(_{m}\) \( = (\phi_{m,0},\)\(\phi\)\(_{m}\)\(,\sigma_{m})\)

  • \(\phi\)\(_{m}\)\( = (vec(A_{m,1}),...,vec(A_{m,p})\)

  • and \(\sigma_{m} = vech(\Omega_{m})\), m=1,...,M.

Above, \(\phi_{m,0}\) is the intercept parameter, \(A_{m,i}\) denotes the \(i\):th coefficient matrix of the \(m\):th mixture component, \(\Omega_{m}\) denotes the error term covariance matrix of the \(m\):th mixture component, and \(\alpha_{m}\) is the mixing weight parameter.

If parametrization=="mean", just replace each \(\phi_{m,0}\) with regimewise mean \(\mu_{m}\). \(vec()\) is vectorization operator that stacks columns of a given matrix into a vector. \(vech()\) stacks columns of a given matrix from the principal diagonal downwards (including elements on the diagonal) into a vector. The notation is in line with the cited article by KMS (2016) introducing the GMVAR model.

Value

Returns a 3D array containing the covariance matrices of the given model. Coefficient matrix \(\Omega_{m}\) can be obtained by choosing [, , m].

Warning

No argument checks!

References

  • Kalliovirta L., Meitz M. and Saikkonen P. 2016. Gaussian mixture vector autoregression. Journal of Econometrics, 192, 485-498.