The calculation is numerically stable on my machine: I'd mark it up as computational/floating-point error and not worry about it.
Michael On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Ivan Popivanov <ivan.popiva...@gmail.com> wrote: > Let me start with the code: > > library(quantmod) > library(rugarch) > getSymbols("SPY", from="1900-01-01") > rets=na.trim(diff(log(Cl(SPY)))) > tt = tail(rets["/2004-10-29"], 1000) > spec = ugarchspec(variance.model=list(garchOrder=c(1,1)), > mean.model=list(armaOrder=c(2,5)), distribution.model="sged") > for(ii in 1:10) > { > ttFit = ugarchfit( spec=spec, data=as.vector(tt), out.sample=0, > solver.control=list(trace=F) ) > ttFore = ugarchforecast( ttFit, n.ahead=1, n.roll=0 ) > print( as.array(ttFore)[,2,] ) > } > > Produces two different results: -0.001087313 and -0.001092084, each > repeated a few times. > > What is the explanation for that? Since they are based on previous data, I > was expecting single step forecasts to produce the same result. > > Thanks in advance! > Ivan > > [[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. ______________________________________________ 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.