Estimating the p-Variation Index of a Sample Function: An Application to Financial Data Set

Rimas Norvaiša () and Donna Mary Salopek ()
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Rimas Norvaiša: Institute of Mathematics and Informatics
Donna Mary Salopek: York University

Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, 2002, vol. 4, issue 1, 27-53

Abstract: Abstract In this paper we apply a real analysis approach to test continuous time stochastic models of financial mathematics. Specifically, fractal dimension estimation methods are applied to statistical analysis of continuous time stochastic processes. To estimate a roughness of a sample function we modify a box-counting method typically used in estimating fractal dimension of a graph of a function. Here the roughness of a function f is defined as the infimum of numbers p > 0 such that f has bounded p-variation, which we call the p-variation index of f. The method is also tested on estimating the exponent α∈[1, 2] of a simulated symmetric α-stable process, and on estimating the Hurst exponent H ∈ (0, 1) of a simulated fractional Brownian motion.

Keywords: estimation; p-variation index; box-counting index; financial data analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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