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- ## Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997 Friedrich Leisch
- ##
- ## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- ## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
- ## any later version.
- ##
- ## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
- ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
- ## General Public License for more details.
- ##
- ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- ## along with this file. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
- ## 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
-
- ## usage: vol (X, m [, n])
- ##
- ## vol returns the volatility of each column of the input matrix X. m is
- ## the number of data sets per period (e.g. the number of data per year
- ## if you want to compute the volatility per year). The optional
- ## parameter n gives the number of past periods used for computation, if
- ## n is omitted, n=1 is used. If T is the number of rows of X, vol
- ## returns the volatility from n*m to T.
-
- ## Author: FL <Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
- ## Description: Volatility of financial time series data
-
- function retval = vol (X, m, n)
-
- if (nargin < 2)
- usage ("vol (X, m [, n])");
- endif
-
- [xr, xc] = size (X);
-
- if (nargin > 2)
- if (n * m > xr)
- error ("vol: I need more data!");
- endif
- else
- n = 1;
- if (n * m > xr)
- error ("vol: I need more data!");
- endif
- endif
-
- U = zeros (xr - 1, xc);
-
- if all (X)
- U = X ((2 : xr), :) ./ X((1 : (xr-1)), :);
- else
- error ("vol: zero element in X");
- endif
-
- U = log(U);
- U = U - ones (xr - 1, 1) * sum (U) / (xr - 1);
-
- retval = zeros (xr - n * m, xc);
-
- retval(1, :) = sumsq (U((1 : n*m), :));
- for i = 2 : (xr - n * m)
- retval(i, :) = retval(i - 1, :) ...
- - U(i - 1, :).^2 + U(i + n * m - 1, :).^2;
- endfor
-
- retval = sqrt (retval * m / (n * m - 1));
-
- endfunction
-
-