Blocks adjustment – reduction of bias and variance of detrended fluctuation analysis using Monte Carlo simulation

Sebastian Michalski

No 15, Working Papers from Department of Applied Econometrics, Warsaw School of Economics

Abstract: The length of minimal and maximal blocks equally distant on log-log scale versus fluctuation function considerably influences bias and variance of DFA. Through a number of extensive Monte Carlo simulations and different fractional Brownian motion/fractional Gaussian noise generators, we found the pair of minimal and maximal blocks that minimizes the sum of mean-squared error of estimated Hurst exponents for the series of length N = 2^p, p = 7, . . . , 15. Sensitivity of DFA to sort-range correlations was examined using ARFIMA(p, d, q) generator. Due to the bias of the estimator for anti-persistent processes, we narrowed down the range of Hurst exponent to 1/2 =

Keywords: Detrended Fluctuation Analysis; Scaled Windowed Variance; fractional Brownian motion; Hurst exponent; ARFIMA (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21 pages
Date: 2006-05-22
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