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In econometrics, autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (ARCH) models are used to characterize and model observed time series. They are used whenever there is reason to believe that, at any point in a series, the error terms will have a characteristic size or variance. In particular ARCH models assume the variance of the current error term or innovation to be a function of the actual sizes of the previous time periods' error terms: often the variance is related to the squares of the previous innovations. Such models are often called ARCH models (Engle, 1982), although a variety of other acronyms are applied to particular structures of model which have a similar basis. ARCH models are employed commonly in modeling financial time series that exhibit time-varying volatility clustering, i.e. periods of swings followed by periods of relative calm. ARCH-type models are sometimes considered to be part of the family of stochastic volatility models but strictly this is incorrect since at time ''t'' the volatility is completely pre-determined (deterministic) given previous values. ==ARCH(''q'') model Specification== Suppose one wishes to model a time series using an ARCH process. Let denote the error terms (return residuals, with respect to a mean process), i.e. the series terms. These are split into a stochastic piece and a time-dependent standard deviation characterizing the typical size of the terms so that : The random variable is a strong white noise process. The series is modelled by : where and . An ARCH(''q'') model can be estimated using ordinary least squares. A methodology to test for the lag length of ARCH errors using the Lagrange multiplier test was proposed by Engle (1982). This procedure is as follows: # Estimate the best fitting autoregressive model AR(''q'') . # Obtain the squares of the error and regress them on a constant and ''q'' lagged values: #: #: #: #: where ''q'' is the length of ARCH lags. #The null hypothesis is that, in the absence of ARCH components, we have for all . The alternative hypothesis is that, in the presence of ARCH components, at least one of the estimated coefficients must be significant. In a sample of ''T'' residuals under the null hypothesis of no ARCH errors, the test statistic ''T'R²'' follows distribution with ''q'' degrees of freedom, where is the number of equations in the model which fits the residuals vs the lags (i.e. ). If ''T'R²'' is greater than the Chi-square table value, we ''reject'' the null hypothesis and conclude there is an ARCH effect in the ARMA model. If ''T'R²'' is smaller than the Chi-square table value, we ''do not reject'' the null hypothesis. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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