Re: [R] Value at Risk using a volatility model?

2013-04-07 Thread Patrick Burns
There is an example of using the t distribution for VaR in: http://www.portfolioprobe.com/2012/11/19/the-estimation-of-value-at-risk-and-expected-shortfall/ The trick is to know what the variance of the distribution is for a given value of the degrees of freedom. Pat On 06/04/2013 10:54,

Re: [R] Value at Risk using a volatility model?

2013-04-07 Thread Stat Tistician
I already know this, I did a second post, where I mention this, but I have still problems with the implementation, especially in case of other distributions! But thanks for your answer. 2013/4/7 Patrick Burns pbu...@pburns.seanet.com: There is an example of using the t distribution for VaR in:

[R] Value at Risk using a volatility model?

2013-04-06 Thread Stat Tistician
Hi, I want to calculate the Value at Risk with using some distirbutions and a volatility model. I use the following data(http://uploadeasy.net/upload/cdm3n.rar) which are losses (negative returns) of a company of approx. the last 10 years. So I want to calculated the Value at Risk, this is nothing