Adaptive stable distribution and Hurst exponent by method of moments moving estimator for nonstationary time series

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Main Author: Duda, Jarek
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contents Nonstationarity of real-life time series requires model adaptation. In classical approaches like ARMA-ARCH there is assumed some arbitrarily chosen dependence type. To avoid their bias, we will focus on novel more agnostic approach: moving estimator, which estimates parameters separately for every time $t$: optimizing $F_t=\sum_{τ<t} (1-η)^{t-τ} \ln(ρ_θ(x_τ))$ local log-likelihood with exponentially weakening weights of the old values. In practice such moving estimates can be found by EMA (exponential moving average) of some parameters, like $m_p=E[|x-μ|^p]$ absolute central moments, updated by $m_{p,t+1} = m_{p,t} + η(|x_t-μ_t|^p-m_{p,t})$. We will focus here on its applications for alpha-Stable distribution, which also influences Hurst exponent, hence can be used for its adaptive estimation. Its application will be shown on financial data as DJIA time series - beside standard estimation of evolution of center $μ$ and scale parameter $σ$, there is also estimated evolution of $α$ parameter allowing to continuously evaluate market stability - tails having $ρ(x) \sim 1/|x|^{α+1}$ behavior, controlling probability of potentially dangerous extreme events.
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spellingShingle Adaptive stable distribution and Hurst exponent by method of moments moving estimator for nonstationary time series
Duda, Jarek
Methodology
Machine Learning
Econometrics
Nonstationarity of real-life time series requires model adaptation. In classical approaches like ARMA-ARCH there is assumed some arbitrarily chosen dependence type. To avoid their bias, we will focus on novel more agnostic approach: moving estimator, which estimates parameters separately for every time $t$: optimizing $F_t=\sum_{τ<t} (1-η)^{t-τ} \ln(ρ_θ(x_τ))$ local log-likelihood with exponentially weakening weights of the old values. In practice such moving estimates can be found by EMA (exponential moving average) of some parameters, like $m_p=E[|x-μ|^p]$ absolute central moments, updated by $m_{p,t+1} = m_{p,t} + η(|x_t-μ_t|^p-m_{p,t})$. We will focus here on its applications for alpha-Stable distribution, which also influences Hurst exponent, hence can be used for its adaptive estimation. Its application will be shown on financial data as DJIA time series - beside standard estimation of evolution of center $μ$ and scale parameter $σ$, there is also estimated evolution of $α$ parameter allowing to continuously evaluate market stability - tails having $ρ(x) \sim 1/|x|^{α+1}$ behavior, controlling probability of potentially dangerous extreme events.
title Adaptive stable distribution and Hurst exponent by method of moments moving estimator for nonstationary time series
topic Methodology
Machine Learning
Econometrics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05354