1. Introduction and Overview. 2. Detecting Influential Observations and Outliers. 3. Detecting and Assessing Collinearity. 4. Applications and Remedies. 5. Research Issues and Directions for Extensions. Bibliography. Author Index. Subject Index.

Regression Diagnostics: Identifying Influential Data and Sources of Collinearity

Stable non-Gaussian random processes , by G. Samorodnitsky and M. S. Taqqu. Pp. 632. £49.50. 1994. ISBN 0-412-05171-0 (Chapman and Hall).

Astronomical data analysis software and systems

Probability and Measure

A rapidly growing literature has documented important improvements in financial return volatility measurement and forecasting via use of realized variation measures constructed from high-frequency returns coupled with simple modeling procedures. Building on recent theoretical results in Barndorff-Nielsen and Shephard (2004a, 2005) for related bi-power variation measures, the present paper provides a practical and robust framework for non-parametrically measuring the jump component in asset return volatility. In an application to the DM/$ exchange rate, the S&P500 market index, and the 30-year U.S. Treasury bond yield, we find that jumps are both highly prevalent and distinctly less persistent than the continuous sample path variation process. Moreover, many jumps appear directly associated with specific macroeconomic news announcements. Separating jump from non-jump movements in a simple but sophisticated volatility forecasting model, we find that almost all of the predictability in daily, weekly, and monthly return volatilities comes from the non-jump component. Our results thus set the stage for a number of interesting future econometric developments and important financial applications by separately modeling, forecasting, and pricing the continuous and jump components of the total return variation process.

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Roughing It Up: Including Jump Components in the Measurement, Modeling, and Forecasting of Return Volatility

Preface. Acronyms. 1. Stationary Processes. 2. State Space Systems. 3. Long-Memory Processes. 4. Estimation Methods. 5. Asymptotic Theory. 6. Heteroskedastic Models. 7. Transformations. 8. Bayesian Methods. 9. Prediction. 10. Regression. 11. Missing Data. 12. Seasonality. References. Topic Index. Author Index.

Long-Memory Time Series: Theory and Methods

Long-memory time series

This paper develops a state space modeling for long-range dependent data. Although a long-range dependent process has an infinite-dimensional state space representation, it is shown that by using the Kalman filter, the exact likelihood function can be computed recursively in a finite number of steps. Furthermore, an approximation to the likelihood function based on the truncated state space equation is considered. Asymptotic properties of these approximate maximum likelihood estimates are established for a class of long-range dependent models, namely, the fractional autoregressive moving average models. Simulation studies show rapid converging properties of the approximate maximum likelihood approach.

Wilfredo Palma

Papers

Long-Memory Time Series: Theory and Methods

Long-memory time series

State space modeling of long-memory processes

An intervention analysis of air quality data at Santiago, Chile

Estimation of seasonal fractionally integrated processes