Uniform Test for Predictive Regression With AR Errors

Testing predictability is of importance in economics and finance. Based on a predictive regression model with independent and identically distributed errors, some uniform tests have been proposed in the literature without distinguishing whether the predicting variable is stationary or nearly integrated. In this article, we extend the empirical likelihood methods of Zhu, Cai, and Peng with independent errors to the case of an AR error process. Again, the proposed new tests do not need to know whether the predicting variable is stationary or nearly integrated, and whether it has a finite variance or an infinite variance. A simulation study shows the new methodologies perform well in finite sample.     

金融市场收益率方向预测模型研究———基于文本大数据方法

金融市场的发展关系着一国的经济命脉,而股票市场作为金融市场的重要组成部分,对其收益率的研究也一直都是学术界的热点。财经新闻常被认为蕴含着丰富的信息,其中所包含的情感信息作为影响投资者投资决策的重要因素之一,对股票收益率也具有一定的影响。故本文构建了适用于金融投资领域的财经新闻情感词典来对财经新闻进行文本分析,同时构造了新的预测模型:将财经新闻文本中所含的情感量化为情绪指数并与时变密度函数相结合,得到时变加权密度模型。并在此基础上以模型评分为权重组合多个预测模型构建出评分加权模型用于股票收益率预测。结果显示,加入情绪指数能有效提高模型预测能力,而评分加权模型的预测能力则在此基础上更进一步,在准确率以及评分规则上基本达到双重最优。     

The effect of autocorrelation on the ewma maxmin tolerance limits

Amin et al. (1999) developed an exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) control chart, based on the smallest and largest observations in each sample. The resulting plot of the extremes suggests that the MaxMin EWMA may also be viewed as smoothed tolerance limits. Tolerance limits are limits that include a specific proportion of the population at a given confidence level. In the context of process control, they are used to make sure that production will not be outside specifications. Amin and Li (2000) provided the coverages of the MaxMin EWMA tolerance limits for independent data. In this article, it is shown how autocorrelation affects the confidence level of MaxMin tolerance limits, for a specified level of coverage of the population, and modified smoothed tolerance limits are suggested for autocorrelated processes.     

Simulations of Some Doubly Stochastic Poisson Point Processes

Computer simulations of point processes are important either to verify the results of certain theoretical calculations that can be very awkward at times or to obtain practical results when these calculations become almost impossible. One of the most common methods for the simulation of nonstationary Poisson processes is random thinning. Its extension when the intensity becomes random (doubly stochastic Poisson processes) depends on the structure of this intensity. If the random density takes only discrete values, which is a common situation in many physical problems where quantum mechanics introduces discrete states, it is shown that the thinning method can be applied without error. We study in particular the case of binary density and present the kind of theoretical calculations that then become possible. The results of various experiments realized with data obtained by simulation show a fairly good agreement with the theoretical calculations.     

GENERALIZED SIGNED-RANK ESTIMATORS FOR AUTOREGRESSION PARAMETERS

ABSTRACT

A new class of weighted signed-rank-based estimates for estimating the parameter vector of an autoregressive time series is considered. The Wilcoxon signed-rank estimate and the GR-estimates of Terpstra et al. (GR-Estimates for an Autoregressive Time Series. Statistics and Probability Letters 2001, 51, 165–172; Generalized Rank Estimates for an Autoregressive Time Series: A U-Statistic Approach. Statistical Inference for Stochastic Processes 2001, 4, 155–179) can be viewed as special cases of the so-called GSR-estimates. Asymptotic linearity properties are derived for the GSR-estimates. Based on these properties, and a symmetry assumption, the GSR-estimates are shown to be asymptotically normal at rate n ^1/2. The theory of U-Statistics along with a characterization of weak dependence that is inherent in stationary AR(p) models are the primary tools used to obtain the results. Tests of hypotheses as well as standard errors for confidence interval procedures can be based on such results. An efficiency study indicates that, for an appropriately chosen set of weights, the GSR-estimate is more efficient than the GR-estimate. Furthermore, the GSR-estimate has an added advantage in that an intercept term can be estimated simultaneously; unlike the GR-estimate. Two examples and a small simulation study are used to illustrate the computational and robust aspects of the GSR-estimates.     

中国缩小收入差距：进展、挑战与对策

对于遏制收入差距扩大,中国已经取得了一些进展,但随着收入差距矛盾的主要方面由城乡差距转为城镇内部差距,缩小收入差距面临新的挑战。在简要回顾中国收入差距变化的过程和历史背景的基础上,分析了当下中国收入差距微幅缩小的原因,并结合国际经验,对未来影响收入差距的主要因素———资本要素和劳动要素的分配关系进行分析和总结,最后对中国收入分配改革提出政策建议。     

论马克思理论的逻辑起点与出发点

马克思理论的逻辑起点是“本质的人”,出发点是“现实的人”。马克思理论的出发点和逻辑起点的区分,标志了马克思思维方式的彻底变革,为马克思理论的产生和形成奠定了科学的基础。同时,它对我们深化理解马克思理论和构建社会主义和谐社会来说有着极其重要的理论和实践意义。     

西点军校管理体制研究

在两个多世纪的发展历程中,西点军校遵循高等教育发展规律,较好地处理了学校与政府的关系、校长与教师的关系、学员与学校的关系,学校自治、教授治校、学生自治等现代大学管理的基本理念得到了确实的贯彻,形成了其颇具"西点特色"的学校管理体制。     

A robust QTL mapping procedure

In quantitative trait linkage studies using experimental crosses, the conventional normal location-shift model or other parameterizations may be unnecessarily restrictive. We generalize the mapping problem to a genuine nonparametric setup and provide a robust estimation procedure for the situation where the underlying phenotype distributions are completely unspecified. Classical Wilcoxon–Mann–Whitney statistics are employed for point and interval estimation of QTL positions and effects.     

Asymptotic distributions for the intervals estimators of the extremal index and the cluster-size probabilities

Under appropriate long range dependence conditions, the point process of exceedances of a stationary sequence weakly converges to a homogeneous compound Poisson point process. This limiting point process can be characterized by the extremal index and the cluster-size probabilities. In this paper we address the problem of estimating these quantities and we consider the intervals estimators introduced in Ferro and Segers [2003. Inference for clusters of extreme values. J. Roy. Statist. Soc. Ser. B 545–556] and in Ferro [2004. Statistical methods for clusters of extreme values. Ph.D. Thesis, Lancaster University]. We establish asymptotic weak convergence to Gaussian random variables and we give their asymptotic variance.