Hello, I have a few questions concerning the DCC-GARCH model and its programming in R. So here is what I want to do: I take quotes of two indices - S&P500 and DJ. And the aim is to estimate coefficients of the DCC-GARCH model for them. This is how I do it:
library(tseries) p1 = get.hist.quote(instrument = "^gspc",start = "2005-01-07",end = "2009-09-04",compression = "w", quote="AdjClose") p2 = get.hist.quote(instrument = "^dji",start = "2005-01-07",end = "2009-09-04",compression = "w", quote="AdjClose") p = cbind(p1,p2) y = diff(log(p))*100 y[,1] = y[,1]-mean(y[,1]) y[,2] = y[,2]-mean(y[,2]) T = length(y[,1]) library(ccgarch) library(fGarch) f1 = garchFit(~ garch(1,1), data=y[,1],include.mean=FALSE) f1 = f1@fit$coef f2 = garchFit(~ garch(1,1), data=y[,2],include.mean=FALSE) f2 = f2@fit$coef a = c(f1[1], f2[1]) A = diag(c(f1[2],f2[2])) B = diag(c(f1[3], f2[3])) dccpara = c(0.2,0.6) dccresults = dcc.estimation(inia=a, iniA=A, iniB=B, ini.dcc=dccpara,dvar=y, model="diagonal") dccresults$out DCCrho = dccresults$DCC[,2] matplot(DCCrho, type='l') dccresults$out deliver me the estimated coefficients of the DCC-GARCH model. And here is my first question: How can I check if these coefficients are significant or not? How can I test them for significance? second question would be: Is this true that matplot(DCCrho, type='l') shows conditional correlation between the two indices in question? and the third one: What is actually dccpara and why do I get totally different DCC-alpha and DCC-beta coefficients if I change dccpara from c(0.2,0.6) to, let's say, c(0.01, 0.98) ? What determines which values should be chosen? Hopefully someone will find time to give me a hand. Thank you very much in advance, people of good will, for looking at/checking what I wrote and helping me. Best regards Marcin [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.