I'm trying to estimate the parameters for GARCH(1,1) process. Here's my code: loglikelihood <-function(theta) {
h=((r[1]-theta[1])^2) p=0 for (t in 2:length(r)) { h=c(h,theta[2]+theta[3]*((r[t-1]-theta[1])^2)+theta[4]*h[t-1]) p=c(p,dnorm(r[t],theta[1],sqrt(h[t]),log=TRUE)) } -sum(p) } Then I use nlminb to minimize the function loglikelihood: nlminb( c(0.001,0.001,0.001,0.001), loglikelihood, lower=c(0.000001,0,0,0)) This does not produce a good result: the iteration limit is reached and increasing it won't help. I have used "garchFit" from fGarch-package to estimate the parameters. I set garchFit to use nlminb as well, and it produces a result within just a few seconds. However, for modification purposes, I need to get my own code working. [[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.