Title :
Towards a framework for combining stochastic and deterministic descriptions of nonstationary financial time series
Author :
Lesch, Ragnar H. ; Lowe, David
Author_Institution :
Neural Comput. Res. Group, Aston Univ., Birmingham, UK
fDate :
31 Aug-2 Sep 1998
Abstract :
We present ideas to tackle the problem of analysing and forecasting nonstationary time series within the financial domain. Accepting the stochastic nature of the underlying data generator we assume that the evolution of the generator´s parameters is restricted on a deterministic manifold. Therefore we propose methods for determining the characteristics of the time-localised distribution. Starting with the assumption of a static normal distribution, we refine this according to the empirical results obtained with the methods and conclude with the indication of a dynamic non-Gaussian behaviour with varying dependency for the time series under consideration
Keywords :
Gaussian distribution; forecasting theory; stochastic processes; stock markets; time series; Gaussian distribution; deterministic descriptions; financial domain; nonstationary time series; probability; return generating process; stochastic descriptions; stock price index; time-localised distribution; Character generation; Gaussian distribution; History; Neural networks; Predictive models; Probability density function; Statistics; Stochastic processes; Time series analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Neural Networks for Signal Processing VIII, 1998. Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE Signal Processing Society Workshop
Conference_Location :
Cambridge
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5060-X
DOI :
10.1109/NNSP.1998.710690