On the relationship between the matrix operators,vech and vecd

We introduce a matrix operator, which we call “vecd” operator. This operator stacks up “diagonals” of a symmetric matrix. This operator is more convenient for some statistical analyses than the commonly used “vech” operator. We show an explicit relationship between the vecd and vech operators. Using this relationship, various properties of the vecd operator are derived. As applications of the vecd operator, we derive concise and explicit expressions of the Wald and score tests for equal variances of a multivariate normal distribution and for the diagonality of variance coefficient matrices in a multivariate generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedastic (GARCH) model, respectively.     

中、印、美股市联动差异性研究

基于扩散视角和跳跃视角探究了中、印、美股市联动行为。基于扩散视角,美国和印度股市与中国股市有明显的单向收益溢出效应,中美之间有明显的波动溢出效应,但是中印之间却不存在这种关系。从非对称影响的结果来看,只存在印度股市和美国股市与中国股市单向的非对称影响。基于跳跃视角,中印、中美股市的平均跳跃幅度和平均方差贡献率,与其跳跃强度相比联动性更高,中印联合跳跃比率相关系数和中美联合跳跃比率相关系数都处于较高水平,同时稳健性检验的结果表明结论整体具有一致性。     

Some results on commutation matrices,with statistical applications

The commutation matrix P _mn changes the order of multiplication of a Kronecker matrix product. The vec operator stacks columns of a matrix one under another in a single column. It is possible to express the vec of a Kronecker matrix product in terms of a Kronecker product of vecs of matrices. The commutation matrix plays an important role here. “Super-vec-operators” like vec A ? vec A vec ( A ? A ), and vec{( A ? A ) P _nn} are very convenient. Several of their properties are being studied. Both the traditional commutation matrix and vec operator and the newer concepts developed from these are applied to multivariate statistical and related problems.     

Optimal and efficient treatment control design in the heteroscedastic one-way layout with covariates

In this article, we take up the experimental situation of a heteroscedastic one-way layout model in the presence of a set of controllable covariates. For the joint estimation of the elementary contrasts of a set of test treatments with a control and the effects of covariates, sufficient conditions for the existence of an A-optimal design are identified. When these sufficient conditions are not met, we propose highly A-efficient designs. The methods of construction of A-optimal and highly A-efficient designs are discussed. For different values of the parameters of the design, A-efficiency of the proposed designs are tabulated for a comparative study.     

Wald检验不一致性的微分几何解释及改进

Wald检验对于等价的零假设中不同形式的表达式在有限样本的情况下缺乏一致性,而从微分几何的角度来解释这一现象,并发现由于Wald统计量是一个混杂的不恰当的几何量,从而对不同的含参数的等价表达式不具有一致性。同时还展示了芬斯拉（Finsler）测地统计量如何能较为简便的计算出来、它在线性回归模型中的非线性约束条件下如何应用以及两者在什么情况下保持一致,并提出了一种解决Wald检验不一致性的思路。     

Some Theoretical and Simulation Results on the Frequency Domain Causality Test

Breitung and Candelon (2006 Breitung , J. , Candelon , B. ( 2006 ). Testing for short- and long-run causality: A frequency-domain approach . Journal of Econometrics 132 : 363 – 378 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) in Journal of Econometrics proposed a simple statistical testing procedure for the noncausality hypothesis at a given frequency. In their paper, however, they reported some theoretical results indicating that their test severely suffers from quite low power when the noncausality hypothesis is tested at a frequency close to 0 or pi. This paper examines whether or not these results indicate their procedure is useless at such frequencies.     

The effect of spillover on the Granger causality test

In this paper, we investigate the properties of the Granger causality test in stationary and stable vector autoregressive models under the presence of spillover effects, that is, causality in variance. The Wald test and the WW test (the Wald test with White's proposed heteroskedasticity-consistent covariance matrix estimator imposed) are analyzed. The investigation is undertaken by using Monte Carlo simulation in which two different sample sizes and six different kinds of data-generating processes are used. The results show that the Wald test over-rejects the null hypothesis both with and without the spillover effect, and that the over-rejection in the latter case is more severe in larger samples. The size properties of the WW test are satisfactory when there is spillover between the variables. Only when there is feedback in the variance is the size of the WW test slightly affected. The Wald test is shown to have higher power than the WW test when the errors follow a GARCH(1,1) process without a spillover effect. When there is a spillover, the power of both tests deteriorates, which implies that the spillover has a negative effect on the causality tests.     

A survey on multivariate chi-square distributions and their applications in testing multiple hypotheses

We are concerned with three different types of multivariate chi-square distributions. Their members play important roles as limiting distributions of vectors of test statistics in several applications of multiple hypotheses testing. We explain these applications and consider the computation of multiplicity-adjusted p-values under the respective global hypothesis. By means of numerical examples, we demonstrate how much gain in level exhaustion or, equivalently, power can be achieved with corresponding multivariate multiple tests compared with approaches which are only based on univariate marginal distributions and do not take the dependence structure among the test statistics into account. As a further contribution of independent value, we provide an overview of essentially all analytic formulas for computing multivariate chi-square probabilities of the considered types which are available up to present. These formulas were scattered in the previous literature and are presented here in a unified manner.     

Exact and stochastic nonlinear constrained estimation in the conditional poisson log-linear model

A minimum chi-square estimator of the conditional Poisson log-linear model parameters subject to exact and stochastic nonlinear constraints is defined. The Wald test is used to evaluate the exact and stochastic constraints.     

Diagonalization matrix and its application in distribution theory

Some matrix representations of diverse diagonal arrays are studied in this work; the results allow new definitions of classes of elliptical distributions indexed by kernels mixing Hadamard and usual products. A number of applications are derived in the setting of prior densities from the Bayesian multivariate regression model and families of non-elliptical distributions, such as the matrix multivariate generalized Birnbaum–Saunders density. The philosophy of the research about matrix representations of quadratic and inverse quadratic forms can be extended as a methodology for exploring possible new applications in non-standard distributions, matrix transformations and inference.     

On Small Sample Properties of the Wald,LR and LM Tests in a Linear Model with AR(1) Errors

When the error terms are autocorrelated, the conventional t-tests for individual regression coefficients mislead us to over-rejection of the null hypothesis. We examine, by Monte Carlo experiments, the small sample properties of the unrestricted estimator of ρ and of the estimator of ρ restricted by the null hypothesis. We compare the small sample properties of the Wald, likelihood ratio and Lagrange multiplier test statistics for individual regression coefficients. It is shown that when the null hypothesis is true, the unrestricted estimator of ρ is biased. It is also shown that the Lagrange multiplier test using the maximum likelihood estimator of ρ performs better than the Wald and likelihood ratio tests.     

Specification and testing of multiplicative time-varying GARCH models with applications

In this article, we develop a specification technique for building multiplicative time-varying GARCH models of Amado and Teräsvirta (2008, 2013). The variance is decomposed into an unconditional and a conditional component such that the unconditional variance component is allowed to evolve smoothly over time. This nonstationary component is defined as a linear combination of logistic transition functions with time as the transition variable. The appropriate number of transition functions is determined by a sequence of specification tests. For that purpose, a coherent modelling strategy based on statistical inference is presented. It is heavily dependent on Lagrange multiplier type misspecification tests. The tests are easily implemented as they are entirely based on auxiliary regressions. Finite-sample properties of the strategy and tests are examined by simulation. The modelling strategy is illustrated in practice with two real examples: an empirical application to daily exchange rate returns and another one to daily coffee futures returns.     

中国大蒜电子交易市场与现货市场波动溢出效应研究——基于二元VAR-GARCH-BEKK模型

本文采用二元VAR-GARCH-BEKK模型,对中国大蒜现货市场和电子交易市场间的波动溢出效应进行了分析,研究发现:既存在现货市场向电子交易市场单向的波动溢出效应,也存在电子交易市场向现货市场的单向波动溢出效应,同时两个市场间还存在着双向的波动溢出效应,并且大蒜电子交易市场向现货市场的波动溢出效应要强于现货市场向电子交易市场的波动溢出效应,两个市场间的波动溢出效应主要是由电子交易市场向现货市场的溢出。     

More on the Preliminary Test Estimator in Almost Unbiased Liu Regression

This article is concerned with the parameter estimation in linear regression model when it is suspected that the regression coefficients are the subspace of the equality restrictions. The objective of this article is to introduce the preliminary test almost unbiased Liu estimators (PTAULE) based on the Wald (W), the likelihood ratio (LR), and the Lagrangian multiplier (LM) tests and compare the proposed estimators in the sense of the quadratic bias and mean square error (MSE) criterion.     

基于SV-Copula模型的相关性分析

内容提要: 本文结合SV模型和Copula技术,建立两变量金融时间序列的Copula-SV模型,并以上海综合指数和深圳成分指数为例利用建立的模型进行分析,根据采用不同的Archimedean Copula函数,通过使用K-S检验说明用Clayton Copula研究上证综指和深圳成指的下尾相关性,用Gumbel Copula研究上证综指和深圳成指的上尾相关性是合适的,从而风险管理者就可以根据尾部相关性,定量的研究两个市场的相关性及预测市场的变化。     

Calculating the power or sample size for the logistic and proportional hazards models

An algorithm is presented for calculating the power for the logistic and proportional hazards models in which some of the covariates are discrete and the remainders are multivariate normal. The mean and covariance matrix of the multivariate normal covariates may depend on the discrete covariates.

The algorithm, which finds the power of the Wald test, uses the result that the information matrix can be calculated using univariate numerical integration even when there are several continuous covariates. The algorithm is checked using simulation and in certain situations gives more accurate results than current methods which are based on simple formulae. The algorithm is used to explore properties of these models, in particular, the power gain from a prognostic covariate in the analysis of a clinical trial or observational study. The methods can be extended to determine power for other generalized linear models.     

Asymptotic test of mixture model and its applications to QTL interval mapping

Quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping has been a standard means in identifying genetic regions harboring potential genes underlying complex traits. Likelihood ratio test (LRT) has been commonly applied to assess the significance of a genetic locus in a mixture model content. Given the time constraint in commonly used permutation tests to assess the significance of LRT in QTL mapping, we study the behavior of the LRT statistic in mixture model when the proportions of the distributions are unknown. We found that the asymptotic null distribution is stationary Gaussian process after suitable transformation. The result can be applied to one-parameter exponential family mixture model. Under certain condition, such as in a backcross mapping model, the tail probability of the supremum of the process is calculated and the threshold values can be determined by solving the distribution function. Simulation studies were performed to evaluate the asymptotic results.     

The effect of serial correlation on confidence regions for the parmnters of a multivariate normal population

The affect upon the significance levels of confidence regions for the mean of a multivariate normal population are determined for certain violations of the independence assumption.     

基于马尔可夫域变模型的上海股市收益率非线性特征分析

针对股市收益率在不同时期内具有不同的均值、波动性和持续性等非线性特征，引入马尔可夫域变模型（MRSM）对上海股市收益率的均值与波动性的对应关系以及高、低收益率状态转换特征进行分析，结果表明马尔可夫域变模型与GARCH类模型相比较，显著地提高了对股票市场行为的描述能力。它不仅可以从动态角度明确刻画金融市场的“收益与风险”相对称的特征，而且可测定不同状态持续的可能性和由一种状态转向另一种状态的概率。