Resumen:
We adapt smoothing methods to histogram-valued time series (HTS) by introducing a barycentric histogram that emulates the “average” operation, which is the key to any smoothing filter. We show that, due to its linear properties, only the Mallows-barycenter is acceptable if we wish to preserve the essence of any smoothing mechanism. We implement a barycentric exponential smoothing to forecast the HTS of daily histograms of intradaily returns to both the SP500 and the IBEX 35 indexes. We construct a one-step-ahead histogram forecast, from which we retrieve a desired ? -value-at-risk (VaR) forecast. In the casse of the SP500 index, a barycentric exponential smoothing delivers a better forecast, in the MSE sense, than those derived from vector autoregression models, especially for the 5% VaR. In the case of IBEX35, the forecasts from both methods are equally good.
Palabras Clave: symbolic data; exponential smoothing; barycenter; high-frequency data; value-at-risk
Índice de impacto JCR y cuartil WoS: 2,100 - Q1 (2023)
Referencia DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1002/sam.10114
Publicado en papel: Abril 2011.
Publicado on-line: Marzo 2011.
Cita:
J. Arroyo, G. González-Rivera, C. Maté, A. Muñoz, Smoothing methods for histogram-valued time series. An application to Value-at-Risk. Statistical Analysis and Data Mining. Vol. 4, nº. 2, pp. 216 - 228, Abril 2011. [Online: Marzo 2011]
