Hi everyone, I want to do a maximum likelihood estimation for the Generalized Dynamic Conditional Correlation (GDCC) Model of Hafner and Franses (2009), but I don't know how exactly. I hope you can help me. This is what I have so far.
Well first of all Hafner models the conditional covariance matrix H_t as follows: H=D*R*D, where D is a diagonal matrix with the square root of the estimated univariate GARCH variances, R is a correlation matrix: R_t=diag(Q_t)^(-1/2)*Q_t*diag(Q_t)^(-1/2) and Q_t=S(1-mean(a)^2-mean(b)^2)+ aa' * (eps_(t-1)*eps')+ bb'*Q_(t-1) a and b are parameter vectors and S is the sample correlation matrix of the eps. There is a two-step estimation method, but I only need the second step. So first of all I want to calculate the correlations gdcc=function (dvar,alpha,beta) { T=dim(dvar)[1] N=dim(dvar)[2] uncR=cor(dvar) R=list() Q=list() Q[[1]]=uncR R[[1]]=diag(diag(uncR)^(-1/2))%*%uncR%*%diag(diag(uncR)^(-1/2)) for (i in 2:T) { Q[[i]]=uncR*(1-mean(alpha)^2-mean(beta)^2)+tcrossprod(alpha)*tcrossprod(dvar[i-1,])+tcrossprod(beta)*Q[[i-1]] R[[i]]=diag(diag(Q[[i]])^(-1/2))%*%Q[[i]]%*%diag(diag(Q[[i]])^(-1/2)) GDCC[i,]=as.vector(R[[i]]) } GDCC } and the log-likelihood function is as follows: loglik.gdcc2=function (alpha,beta,dvar) { T <- dim(dvar)[1] N <- dim(dvar)[2] GDCC=gdcc(dvar,alpha,beta) lf <- numeric(N) for (i in 1:T) { R <- matrix(GDCC[i,], N, N) invR <- solve(R) lf[i] <- 0.5 * (log(det(R)) + sum(dvar[i, ] * crossprod(invR, dvar[i, ]))) } -sum(lf) } I want to use the nlm method. How can I estimate the parameter vectors a and b? I really would appreciate it if anyone could help me. Thank you very much. Best regards, drinky_1 -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Generalized-DCC-GARCH-ML-estimation-tp2245135p2245135.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.