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Limited Dynamic Forecasting of Hidden Markov Models 隐马尔可夫模型的有限动态预测
A. Gopalakrishnan, Eric T. Bradlow, P. Fader
Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) have emerged as an empirical “workhorse” in the marketing literature in capturing and forecasting within-customer non-stationary behaviors. Extant research has demonstrated that HMMs typically outperform nested benchmarks when examining fit statistics aggregated over individuals and time, but have remained largely silent on the set of dynamic out-of-sample forecasting paths offered by an HMM at the individual level. We examine the capabilities of a two-state HMM using theory and reveal a surprising result: an HMM’s forecasting paths are generally limited to monotonic mean-reverting trajectories. Specifically, they lack the notable flexibility associated with the in-sample state-switching imputations, which are generally (but, as we show, erroneously) presumed to exist in the holdout sample as well. Further, we find that common HMM extensions such as adding more hidden states, allowing for heterogeneity, allowing for covariates, and using hidden semi-Markov models do not alleviate the limited forecasting flexibility. Using a simulation design, we show how these limitations can affect forecasting performance empirically. We discuss implications of the limited forecasting properties of HMMs for researchers and managers.
隐马尔可夫模型(hmm)已经成为营销文献中捕捉和预测客户内部非平稳行为的经验“主力”。现有的研究表明,HMM在检查个体和时间上聚合的拟合统计数据时,通常优于嵌套基准,但在个体水平上,HMM提供的动态样本外预测路径集在很大程度上保持沉默。我们使用理论检验了两态HMM的能力,并揭示了一个令人惊讶的结果:HMM的预测路径通常局限于单调的均值回归轨迹。具体来说,它们缺乏与样本内状态切换估算相关的显着灵活性,而样本内状态切换估算通常(但正如我们所示,错误地)假定存在于保留样本中。此外,我们发现常见的HMM扩展,如添加更多的隐藏状态,允许异质性,允许协变量和使用隐藏的半马尔可夫模型,并不能缓解有限的预测灵活性。使用模拟设计,我们展示了这些限制如何影响经验预测性能。我们讨论了hmm有限的预测特性对研究者和管理者的启示。
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引用次数: 1
A Paradigm for Assessing the Scope and Performance of Predictive Analytics 评估预测分析的范围和性能的范例
Jeffrey T. Prince
In this paper, I outline possibilities and limitations for the scope and performance of predictive analytics within a simple paradigm. I do this by first bifurcating predictive analytics into two categories, passive and active. I contrast this categorization with current alternatives and highlight its relative merits in terms of clarity in boundaries, as well as appropriate methods for different types of prediction. I then describe the range of suitable applications, as well as the possibilities and limitations with regard to prediction accuracy, for each type of prediction. I conclude with a discussion of key ways in which an understanding of this paradigm can be valuable.
在本文中,我在一个简单的范例中概述了预测分析的范围和性能的可能性和局限性。我首先将预测分析分为两类,被动的和主动的。我将这种分类与当前的替代方法进行对比,并强调其在边界清晰度方面的相对优点,以及针对不同类型预测的适当方法。然后,我描述了适合的应用范围,以及关于预测精度的可能性和限制,对于每种类型的预测。最后,我将讨论对这种范式的理解可能有价值的关键方式。
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引用次数: 1
Forecasting Bitcoin Risk Measures: A Robust Approach 预测比特币风险措施:一种稳健的方法
Carlos Trucíos
Abstract Over the last few years, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have attracted the interest of many investors, practitioners and researchers. However, little attention has been paid to the predictability of their risk measures. This paper compares the predictability of the one-step-ahead volatility and Value-at-Risk of Bitcoin using several volatility models. We also include procedures that take into account the presence of outliers and estimate the volatility and Value-at-Risk in a robust fashion. Our results show that robust procedures outperform non-robust ones when forecasting the volatility and estimating the Value-at-Risk. These results suggest that the presence of outliers plays an important role in the modelling and forecasting of Bitcoin risk measures.
在过去的几年里,比特币和其他加密货币吸引了许多投资者、从业者和研究人员的兴趣。然而,很少有人注意到其风险措施的可预测性。本文使用几种波动率模型比较了比特币的一步前波动率和风险价值的可预测性。我们还包括考虑异常值存在的程序,并以稳健的方式估计波动性和风险价值。我们的研究结果表明,在预测波动率和估计风险价值时,鲁棒程序优于非鲁棒程序。这些结果表明,异常值的存在在比特币风险度量的建模和预测中起着重要作用。
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引用次数: 73
Nonparametric Forecasting of Multivariate Probability Density Functions 多元概率密度函数的非参数预测
D. Guégan, Matteo Iacopini
The study of dependence between random variables is the core of theoretical and applied statistics. Static and dynamic copula models are useful for describing the dependence structure, which is fully encrypted in the copula probability density function. However, these models are not always able to describe the temporal change of the dependence patterns, which is a key characteristic of financial data. We propose a novel nonparametric framework for modelling a time series of copula probability density functions, which allows to forecast the entire function without the need of post-processing procedures to grant positiveness and unit integral. We exploit a suitable isometry that allows to transfer the analysis in a subset of the space of square integrable functions, where we build on nonparametric functional data analysis techniques to perform the analysis. The framework does not assume the densities to belong to any parametric family and it can be successfully applied also to general multivariate probability density functions with bounded or unbounded support. Finally, a noteworthy field of application pertains the study of time varying networks represented through vine copula models. We apply the proposed methodology for estimating and forecasting the time varying dependence structure between the S&P500 and NASDAQ indices.
随机变量之间的相关性研究是统计学理论和应用的核心。静态和动态联结模型是描述依赖结构的有效方法,在联结概率密度函数中完全加密。然而,这些模型并不总是能够描述依赖模式的时间变化,这是金融数据的一个关键特征。我们提出了一种新的非参数框架来建模时间序列的联结概率密度函数,它允许预测整个函数,而不需要后处理程序来授予正性和单位积分。我们利用一个合适的等距,允许在平方可积函数空间的子集中转移分析,在那里我们建立非参数函数数据分析技术来执行分析。该框架不假设密度属于任何参数族,并且它也可以成功地应用于具有有界或无界支持的一般多元概率密度函数。最后,一个值得注意的应用领域是研究用vine copula模型表示的时变网络。我们将提出的方法用于估计和预测标准普尔500指数与纳斯达克指数之间的时变依赖结构。
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引用次数: 6
Forecasting with Bayesian Vector Autoregressions with Time Variation in the Mean 均值随时间变化的贝叶斯向量自回归预测
Marta Bańbura, Andries van Vlodrop
We develop a vector autoregressive model with time variation in the mean and the variance. The unobserved time-varying mean is assumed to follow a random walk and we also link it to long-term Consensus forecasts, similar in spirit to so called democratic priors. The changes in variance are modelled via stochastic volatility. The proposed Gibbs sampler allows the researcher to use a large cross-sectional dimension in a feasible amount of computational time. The slowly changing mean can account for a number of secular developments such as changing inflation expectations, slowing productivity growth or demographics. We show the good forecasting performance of the model relative to popular alternatives, including standard Bayesian VARs with Minnesota priors, VARs with democratic priors and standard time-varying parameter VARs for the euro area, the United States and Japan. In particular, incorporating survey forecast information helps to reduce the uncertainty about the unconditional mean and along with the time variation improves the long-run forecasting performance of the VAR models.
我们建立了一个均值和方差随时间变化的向量自回归模型。假设未观察到的时变均值遵循随机游走,我们还将其与长期共识预测联系起来,在精神上类似于所谓的民主先验。方差的变化是通过随机波动来建模的。提出的吉布斯采样器允许研究人员在可行的计算时间内使用大的横截面尺寸。缓慢变化的平均值可以解释许多长期发展,如通胀预期变化、生产率增长放缓或人口结构。我们展示了该模型相对于流行的替代方案的良好预测性能,包括具有明尼苏达先验的标准贝叶斯var、具有民主先验的var和适用于欧元区、美国和日本的标准时变参数var。特别是纳入调查预测信息有助于降低无条件均值的不确定性,并随时间变化提高VAR模型的长期预测性能。
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引用次数: 18
DSGE Forecasts of the Lost Recovery DSGE对失去的复苏的预测
Michael D Cai, Marco Del Negro, M. Giannoni, Abhijit Sen Gupta, Pearl Li, Erica Moszkowski
The years following the Great Recession were challenging for forecasters. Unlike other deep downturns, this recession was not followed by a swift recovery, but instead generated a sizable and persistent output gap that was not accompanied by deflation as a traditional Phillips curve relationship would have predicted. Moreover, the zero lower bound and unconventional monetary policy generated an unprecedented policy environment. We document the actual real-time forecasting performance of the New York Fed dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model during this period and explain the results using the pseudo real-time forecasting performance results from a battery of DSGE models. We find the New York Fed DSGE model’s forecasting accuracy to be comparable to that of private forecasters, and notably better for output growth than the median forecasts from the FOMC’s Summary of Economic Projections. The model’s financial frictions were key in obtaining these results, as they implied a slow recovery following the financial crisis.
大衰退(Great Recession)之后的几年对预测者来说充满挑战。与以往的深度衰退不同,这次衰退之后并没有出现迅速复苏,而是产生了相当大且持续的产出缺口,而且没有像传统的菲利普斯曲线关系所预测的那样伴随着通缩。此外,零利率下限和非常规货币政策形成了前所未有的政策环境。我们记录了纽约联储动态随机一般均衡(DSGE)模型在此期间的实际实时预测性能,并使用一系列DSGE模型的伪实时预测性能结果来解释结果。我们发现纽约联储DSGE模型的预测精度与私人预测者相当,对产出增长的预测明显优于联邦公开市场委员会经济预测摘要的中位数预测。该模型的金融摩擦是获得这些结果的关键,因为它们暗示了金融危机后的缓慢复苏。
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引用次数: 24
Forecasting Calendar Futures Spreads of Crude Oil Using Kalman Filter 利用卡尔曼滤波预测原油日历期货价差
Xu Ren, G. Mitra, Zryan A Sadik
The aim of this project is to forecast futures spreads of WTI Crude Oil. The motivation for this project springs from the fact that trading with calendar futures spreads is much more advantageous than trading with many other financial instruments. We make use of the fact that futures prices follow the mean-reverting process (Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, OU). We develop a method, which was first proposed by Islyaev (2014) and the approach then extended by Sadik et al. (2020), that combines three linear Gaussian state space models, namely one factor model, one factor model with risk premium, and one factor model with seasonality. Thereafter, we directly model futures spreads. Kalman filter and the Maximum Likelihood Estimate (MLE) are used to estimate the model parameters. It is shown that this new approach, using the ratio between the nearest prices over spot prices as a latent variable and calendar futures spreads vector as the observed variable, is more accurate and robust than the indirect forecasting method which inputs both spot prices and futures prices as the latent variable and the observed variable respectively. Results on calibration and comparison for three models and two methods, as well as out-of-sample forecasting results are then presented and discussed.
该项目的目的是预测WTI原油期货价差。这个项目的动机源于这样一个事实,即使用日历期货点差交易比使用许多其他金融工具交易更有利。我们利用期货价格遵循均值回归过程(Ornstein-Uhlenbeck过程,OU)这一事实。我们开发了一种方法,该方法首先由Islyaev(2014)提出,然后由Sadik等人(2020)扩展,该方法结合了三种线性高斯状态空间模型,即单因素模型、带风险溢价的单因素模型和带季节性的单因素模型。此后,我们直接模拟期货价差。利用卡尔曼滤波和最大似然估计(MLE)对模型参数进行估计。结果表明,以最近价格与现货价格之比作为潜在变量,日历期货价差向量作为观察变量的间接预测方法比以现货价格和期货价格分别作为潜在变量和观察变量的间接预测方法更准确、更稳健。并对三种模型和两种方法的校正和比较结果以及样本外预测结果进行了讨论。
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引用次数: 0
What Do Professional Forecasters Actually Predict? 专业预测师到底预测了什么?
D. Nibbering, R. Paap, Michel van der Wel
In this paper we study what professional forecasters predict. We use spectral analysis and state space modeling to decompose economic time series into a trend, business-cycle, and irregular component. To examine which components are captured by professional forecasters, we regress their forecasts on the estimated components extracted from both the spectral analysis and the state space model. For both decomposition methods we find that the Survey of Professional Forecasters in the short run can predict almost all variation in the time series due to the trend and business-cycle, but the forecasts contain little or no significant information about the variation in the irregular component.
在本文中,我们研究了专业预测者的预测。我们使用谱分析和状态空间建模将经济时间序列分解为趋势、商业周期和不规则成分。为了检查专业预报员捕获了哪些成分,我们将他们的预测回归到从光谱分析和状态空间模型中提取的估计成分上。对于这两种分解方法,我们发现专业预测者调查在短期内几乎可以预测由于趋势和商业周期而导致的时间序列的所有变化,但预测中几乎没有包含关于不规则成分变化的重要信息。
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Predicting Conflict Events in Africa at Subnational Level 非洲次国家层面的冲突事件预测
Stijn van Weezel
This study reviews the contribution in predictive accuracy of a number of geographic and socio-economic factors that are commonly linked to conflict incidence. A logit model is fitted to sub-national data for Africa at grid-cell level covering the years 2000-2009, generating an out-of-sample forecast for the period 2010-2015. Results show that the strongest predictor of future conflict is current conflict incidence in the grid-cell and neighbouring cells. Additionally, the infant mortality rate, which serves as a proxy for socio-economic well-being, shows some prowess in contributing to accurate predictions. This in contrast with factors such as the share of mountainous terrain. Travel time to the nearest city, to proxy for urban-rural differences, is also a strong predictor, but it must be noted that this could be the result of reporting bias in the outcome variable. In general the results highlight that it is difficult to improve accuracy beyond the contribution of conflict dynamics. Finally, the presented results are based on a relatively simple regression model commonly used in the literature and more sophisticated statistical techniques such as machine learning could improve predictions.
本研究回顾了一些通常与冲突发生率有关的地理和社会经济因素对预测准确性的贡献。一个logit模型拟合了非洲2000-2009年电网层面的次国家数据,生成了2010-2015年的样本外预测。结果表明,未来冲突的最强预测因子是当前网格单元和相邻单元的冲突发生率。此外,作为社会经济福利指标的婴儿死亡率在作出准确预测方面显示出一定的能力。这与山区地形的比例等因素形成对比。到最近的城市的旅行时间,代表城乡差异,也是一个强有力的预测因素,但必须注意,这可能是结果变量报告偏差的结果。总的来说,结果强调,很难提高准确度超出冲突动态的贡献。最后,给出的结果是基于文献中常用的相对简单的回归模型,而更复杂的统计技术(如机器学习)可以改进预测。
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引用次数: 3
Structural Scenario Analysis with SVARs 结构情景分析与svar
Juan Antolín-Díaz, Ivan Petrella, J. Rubio-Ramirez
Abstract Macroeconomists constructing conditional forecasts often face a choice between taking a stand on the details of a fully-specified structural model or relying on correlations from VARs and remaining silent about underlying causal mechanisms. This paper develops tools for constructing economically meaningful scenarios with structural VARs, and proposes a metric to assess and compare their plausibility. We provide a unified treatment of conditional forecasting and structural scenario analysis, relating them to entropic tilting. A careful treatment of uncertainty makes our methods suitable for density forecasting and risk assessment. Two applications illustrate our methods: assessing interest-rate forward guidance and stress-testing bank profitability.
构建条件预测的宏观经济学家经常面临这样的选择:是对完全指定的结构模型的细节采取立场,还是依赖var的相关性,对潜在的因果机制保持沉默。本文开发了构建具有结构性var的经济意义情景的工具,并提出了评估和比较其合理性的度量。我们提供了条件预测和结构情景分析的统一处理,将它们与熵倾斜联系起来。对不确定性的仔细处理使我们的方法适合于密度预测和风险评估。两个应用说明了我们的方法:评估利率前瞻指引和压力测试银行盈利能力。
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引用次数: 38
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