rcss (version 1.1)

FastExpected: Fast Expected Value Function

Description

Approximate the expected value function using fast methods.

Usage

FastExpected(grid, value, disturb, weight, r_index, Neighbour, smooth = 1, SmoothNeighbour)

Arguments

grid

Matrix representing the grid, whose i-th row matrix [i,] corresponds to i-th point of the grid. The matrix [i,1] equals to 1 while the vector [i,-1] represents the system state.

value

Matrix representing the subgradient envelope of the future value function, where the intercept [i,1] and slope matrix [i,-1] describes a subgradient at grid point i.

disturb

3-dimensional array containing the disturbance matrices. Matrix [,,i] specifies the i-th disturbance matrix.

weight

Array containing the probability weights of the disturbance matrices.

r_index

Matrix representing the positions of random entries in the disturbance matrix, where entry [i,1] is the row number and [i,2] gives the column number of the i-th random entry.

Neighbour

Optional function to find the nearest neighbours. If not provided, the Neighbour function from the rflann package is used instead.

smooth

The number of nearest neighbours used to smooth the expected value functions during the Bellman recursion.

SmoothNeighbour

Optional function to find the nearest neighbours for smoothing purposes. If not provided, the Neighbour function from the rflann package is used instead.

Value

Matrix representing the subgradient envelope of the expected value function. Same format as the value input.

Examples

## Bermuda put option
grid <- as.matrix(cbind(rep(1, 91), c(seq(10, 100, length = 91))))
disturb <- array(0, dim = c(2, 2, 10))
disturb[1,1,] <- 1
disturb[2,2,] <- exp((0.06 - 0.5 * 0.2^2) * 0.02 + 0.2 * sqrt(0.02) * rnorm(10))
weight <- rep(1 / 10, 10)
control <- matrix(c(c(1, 1), c(2, 1)), nrow = 2, byrow = TRUE)
reward <- array(0, dim = c(91, 2, 2, 2, 51))
reward[grid[,2] <= 40,1,2,2,] <- 40
reward[grid[,2] <= 40,2,2,2,] <- -1
r_index <- matrix(c(2, 2), ncol = 2)
bellman <- FastBellman(grid, reward, control, disturb, weight, r_index)
expected <- FastExpected(grid, bellman$value[,,2,2], disturb, weight, r_index)