stochvol 3.2.3
- Minor changes and fixes in the documentation
- Bugfix in the indexing of svsample_roll() for expanding window estimation. Thanks to Weixian Nie.
stochvol 3.2.2
- Bugfix in the validation of the inverted gamma prior for sigma^2. Thanks to A. Slavik.
stochvol 3.2.1
- Minor adaptions to NEWS.md to comply with NEWS extractor ‘tools:::.build_news_db_from_package_NEWS_md’
- Export further C++ functions ‘cholesky_tridiagonal’, ‘forward_algorithm’, ‘backward_algorithm’, ‘inverse_transform_sampling’, ‘find_mixture_indicator_cdf’
- Bugfix in ‘print.svsim’
stochvol 3.2.0
- Include reference to the JSS paper
- Bugfix: initial value for ‘mu’ was incorrect when ‘mu’ was set to constant a priori
- Typo corrections in the documentation
stochvol 3.1.0
- NEW FUNCTION ‘svlm’, which has a formula interface; it is a wrapper around ‘svsample’; many thanks to Peter Knaus for his help
- Turn on printing on Windows
- Implement Geweke test in C++; it is feasible to execute it as a CRAN test now
- Small change in the behavior of ‘predict.svdraws’: when ‘newdata’ is given then ‘steps’ is ignored; A warning is shown if this is relevant
- Updated examples for ‘svsample’ and ‘predict’ so that they use the extractors as intended
- Simplified vignette: cache some results to reduce dependencies
- Bugfix in adaptation that does not affect correctness
stochvol 3.0.6
- Correct wrongly submitted vignettes
stochvol 3.0.5
- Re-added first vignette with the necessary updates
- Bugfix in ‘residuals.svdraws’ and ‘plot.svresid’; thanks to David Zoltan Szabo
stochvol 3.0.4
- Updated vignette
- Prevent some compilation warnings
- Updated CITATION file
stochvol 3.0.3
- Bugfix in ‘svsample’ when the input data contains 0s
stochvol 3.0.2
- Bugfix in the fast access functions ‘svsample_fast_cpp’ and ‘svsample_general_cpp’: dimensions were incorrect
- Bring out the adaptation object for ‘svsample_general_cpp’ to the R level; used to be accessible from C++ only
- Update to the adaptation object in C++
stochvol 3.0.1
- Bugfix for calls to ‘svsample’ with draws = 1
- Fix some #include directives
- Avoid compilation problems on Solaris
stochvol 3.0.0
- New model: heavy-tailed SV with leverage and its sampling function ‘svtlsample’
- Change in the heavy-tailed models: now they operate with a normalized Student’s t-distribution, i.e. its standard deviation is 1 for all degrees of freedom
- New, optional API for specifying prior distributions
- It is possible to set any or all of ‘mu’, ‘phi’, ‘sigma’, ‘nu’, ‘rho’ to a constant value, i.e. set a Dirac prior
- Replaced the prior distribution for the degrees of freedom parameter ‘nu’ with an exponential distribution; it used to be a uniform distribution
- New set of unit tests including a Geweke test
- Entirely refactored C++ backend
- New, rethought set of exported C++ functions: ‘update_fast_sv’, ‘update_general_sv’, ‘update_regression’, and ‘update_t_error’; all of them are documented
- Vastly improved the computational efficiency of the former ‘svlsample’ code
- New feature: run independent MCMC chains on the same data set
- Integration of the ‘parallel’ package: option to run independent MCMC chains on a ‘SNOW’ cluster or using the ‘multicore’ strategy
- Modified backend for ‘svdraws’ and ‘svpredict’ objects to to incorporate independent chains: they contain ‘mcmc.list’ objects instead of plain ‘mcmc’ objects. WARNING! This may break code that exploited the backend!
- Additional extractor functions for ‘svdraws’ objects: ‘vola’, ‘sv_beta’, ‘sv_tau’, ‘sampled_parameters’, index chains via [], ‘as.array’
- New extractors for ‘svpredict’ objects: ‘predy’, ‘predlatent’, ‘predvola’, index chains via []
- CITATION file updated
- New vignette
- SV with leverage also includes ‘latent0’ from now on
- New feature: rolling window estimation via the functions ‘svsample_roll’, ‘svtsample_roll’, ‘svlsample_roll’, and ‘svtlsample_roll’
- Unified plotting between models: removed the ‘scaling’ plot from heavy-tailed model outputs
- Many new, small examples
- Small bugfixes
- New “fast-access” functions to circumvent input validation: ‘svsample_fast_cpp’ and ‘svsample_general_cpp’; their arguments are slightly different from the ‘svsample’ family of functions, they come with documentation
- ‘svsample2’ is set to deprecated
stochvol 2.0.5
- Bugfix in predict when a constant mean model is used for prediction
- Test suite added
- Updated CITATION file
stochvol 2.0.4
- Bugfix in ‘svlpredict’ when an inverse gamma prior is used.
- Function ‘svtpredict’ introduced for convenience when estimating SV with heavy tails.
- New generic: logret; old logret function is now logret.default (this change shouldn’t bother the end user).
- New generic: paratraceplot; old paratraceplot function is now paratraceplot.svdraws (this change shouldn’t bother the end user).
stochvol 2.0.3
- The exported C++ function ‘update_svl’ can draw posterior values with a fixed ‘mu’.
- Controlling the amount of latent variable draws to be stored can now be controlled through the ‘keeptime’ argument to ‘svsample’, ‘svsample2’, ‘svlsample’, and ‘svlsample2’.
stochvol 2.0.2
- Bugfix in ‘predict.svdraws’
stochvol 2.0.1
- Introduced a minimalistic ‘plot.svpredict’ / ‘plot.svlpredict’
- More fine-grained control over the covariance matrix in ‘svlsample’, the default employs an approximate covariance matrix coming from ‘svsample’
- Bugfix in ‘predict.svdraws’ and minor changes in documentation thereof
stochvol 2.0.0
- New collaborator: Darjus Hosszejni
- New functionality:
- leverage effect through ‘svlsample’
- simulation of asymmetric returns with ‘svsim’
- prediction using designmatrices and heavy-tails
- Updated functionality:
- the exported C++ function ‘update’ uses RcppArmadillo objects and it has been renamed to ‘update_sv’
- new examples
- Bugfix:
- correct plotting after sampling with ‘gammaprior = FALSE’
- fixed naming of latent states in printing and plotting in the case of time series with conditionally heavy-tailed innovations
- in ‘svsample’: input check for length of burnin is now fixed (thanks to Nikolas Kuschnig)
- other small fixes
- Deprecated:
- functions ‘arpredict’ and ‘.svsample’
- parameter ‘thintime’ in function ‘svsample’
stochvol 1.3.4
- DESCRIPTION file updated.
stochvol 1.3.3
- Registered native routines.
- Thinned graphs in vignette a bit to stay below the required 5MB mark.
- Workaround for typo appearing in conversion of help files to LaTeX document. Thanks to Evelyn Mitchell for pointing this out.
stochvol 1.3.2
- Some more changes in the AWOL sampler because version 1.3.1 appeared to be unstable under Solaris: Sampling of h (including h0) is now done AWOL.
- Turned progress indicator off again (not sure whether this causes issues with Solaris).
stochvol 1.3.1
- Parameter starting values are now set to their respective prior means (if not specified by the user).
- Sampling h[-0] is now done conditionally on h0. This change should not make a difference for the standard use cases of stochvol but is necessary to yield correct results for the new prior for h0 which was introduced in version 1.3.0.
- Turned on progress indicator also for Windows (need %% instead of \045 or % to escape a percent symbol in Rprintf).
stochvol 1.3.0
- Implemented new prior for initial log-volatility h0. Can be used to stabilize the level of the volatilities, especially when stochvol is used within the context of a more general MCMC algorithm.
- Shortened the heavytails-vignette (a bit) to stay below the 5MB mark.
- Fixed error in help files of svsample and svsample2 concerning startpara. Thanks to Dominic Cervicek for pointing this out.
stochvol 1.2.4
- Fixed typo which appeared in pdf package documentation. Thanks to Stefan Voigt for pointing this out.
stochvol 1.2.3
- Updated CITATION to cater for newly published article in the Journal of Statistical Software 69(5), 1-30, doi: 10.18637/jss.v069.i05.
- The function logret can now handle xts objects. Thanks to Niko Hauzenberger for pointing this out.
stochvol 1.2.2
- Fixed bug in initialization of svsample2 that was introduced in 1.2.1. Thanks to John Kerpel for pointing this out.
stochvol 1.2.1
- Added option ‘keeptau’ to the store the “variance inflation factors” used for the sampler with conditional t innovations. Thanks to Sergey Egiev for pointing out that this may be useful to at what point(s) in time the normal disturbance had to be “upscaled” by a mixture factor and when the series behaved “normally”.
- Fixed residuals.svdraws to cater for a potential ‘designmatrix’.
stochvol 1.2.0
- Allows for incorporation of a simple mean (regression-type) model. For details, please see ?svsample and ?arpredict. And, hopefully soon, the corresponding vignette.
- Improved input-checking (somewhat).
- Argument ‘thintime’ in svsample may now also be ‘firstlast’, meaning that latent volatility draws are only kept for the first and the last point in time.
stochvol 1.1.4
- Included non-base default packages that are imported in NAMESPACE into DESCRIPTION. Thanks to Kurt Hornik for pointing this out.
stochvol 1.1.3
- Fixed a typo in Makefile for building vignettes.
stochvol 1.1.2
- Fixed missing imports from non-base default packages.
stochvol 1.1.1
- Fixed “uninitialized variable” in function newtonRaphson (progutils.cpp). Warning appeared when building for Windows.
- Minor changes in main vignette (article.Rnw) so that the included plots have smaller file size and the package does not exceed the 5MB limit (was the case on r-patched-solaris-sparc).
stochvol 1.1.0
- Introduced sampling and simulating conditional t-innvoations. (Hopefully) all affected functions
- svsample
- svsample2
- volplot
- paratraceplot
- paradensplot
- plot.svdraws
- plot.svresid
- svsim
- updatesummary
- predict.svdraws
- residuals.svdraws
- print.svsim
- print.summary.svsim
- print.summary.svdraws and the corresponding help files have been adapted. See package vignette “heavytails” for details. Still a “beta-feature”, please use with care. Bug reports and/or comments are warmly welcome!
- The plot functions now take an optional svsim object.
- predict.svdraws is now in R/utilities_svdraws.R (was in R/plotting.R)
stochvol 1.0.2
- Fixed some more typos.
- Plotting functions are now in R/plotting.R
stochvol 1.0.1
- Updated keywords in vignette.
- Changed VignetteKeyword entries to adhere to CRAN style guide.
stochvol 1.0.0
- First stable release.
- Minor stylistic changes in package vignette.
- Updated CITATION file.
- Version numbering changed from X.Y-Z to X.Y.Z.
stochvol 0.9-2
- Fixed some typographical errors in help files. Thanks to Angela Bitto for pointing these out.
stochvol 0.9-1
- Fixed typographical errors in vignette.
- Added additional results in Table 1 of vignette.
- Minor changes in DESCRIPTION to adhere to CRAN style guide.
stochvol 0.9-0
- Requires now Rcpp >= 0.11.0 and consequently R >= 3.0.0.
- Replaced RNGScope in sampler.cpp by “manual” GetRNGstate() and PutRNGstate() statements because the former is not safe if return variables are declared afterwards, cf. https://www.mail-archive.com/rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org/msg07519.html and follow-ups for further information.
- Minimal overhead sampling function .svsample was renamed to svsample2. The former name will be faded out; please use svsample2 from now on.
- Substantial rewrite of vignette, especially Section 5; includes now a comparison of SV and GARCH.
- Updates and corrections in .Rd files.
- Added some info when package is attached.
- Sample size is now denoted as “n” instead of “T”, in order to avoid confusion with “TRUE” and/or the transpose symbol.
stochvol 0.8-4
- Fixed a bug introduced in version 0.8-2, where I forgot to let .svsample know about the changes in update(…). Thanks to Keiran Thompson for pointing this out.
- Updated CITATION file.
stochvol 0.8-3
- Minor changes in vignette.
stochvol 0.8-2
- update(…) now takes an additional boolean argument preventing an update of mu (but instead hold mu = 0 fixed). This feature is needed e.g. for factor stochastic volatility models.
- C++ function “update” rewritten to use ordinary pointers instead of Rcpp objects. This became necessary because Rcpp objects cannot be constructed re-using memory due to the SEXPREC structure. See https://www.mail-archive.com/rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org/msg06811.html and follow-ups for a more detailed explanation.
stochvol 0.8-1
- Added a -I directive for compiler in Makevars.win so that winbuilder finds headers in inst/include/.
- Re-ran all code used in vignette.
stochvol 0.8-0
- Re-structured main sampler code in sampler.cpp: new function “update” performs a single MCMC iteration. Additionally, this function is also made available to be called by C/C++ code in another package. To use this function within C/C++ code, simply #include <update.h> (defined in inst/include) in the C/C++ code of your package, which itself Imports:/Depends: stochvol (>= 0.8). See package factorstochvol for an example using this mechanism.
- Minor stylistic changes in helper functions and subroutines at C++-level).
- Fixed a minor bug in sampler.cpp where regressionNoncentered returned sigma instead of fabs(sigma) when phi is drawn outside of the unit sphere.
- Fixed DESCRIPTION to Import: Rcpp (instead of Depend:).
- Fixed NAMESPACE: Now has “importFrom(Rcpp, evalCpp)” as required by Rcpp 0.11.0.
stochvol 0.7-2
- Updated CITATION file.
- Updated vignette (mainly stylistic changes).
stochvol 0.7-1
- Manual is now provided as a vignette.
stochvol 0.7-0
- Added a manual.
- Changed the default prior for mu from c(-10, 3) to c(0, 100) to avoid disaster when percentage log-returns (instead of log-returns) are used but the prior is not adapted accordingly.
- Included the date in the exrates dataset.
- Changed svsample to also accept vectors with zero-returns; it throws a warning now (instead of an error) and adds an offset constant.
- Fixed plot.svdraws to reset par to old values.
- Added a “residual plot” feature. Thanks to Hedibert Lopes for pointing this out.
- Added the convenience function “logret” for taking log-returns of a given series, with the possibility of de-meaning.
- Cleaned up summary.svdraws, which now returns a “summary.svdraws” object. For actual printing, print.summary.svdraws is used.
- Cleaned up summary.svsim, which now returns a “summary.svsim” object. For actual printing, print.summary.svsim is used.
stochvol 0.6-1
- Fixed typo in wrapper.R which previously disallowed changing the “expert” argument “proposalvar4sigmaphi”: Replaced “proposalvar2sigmaphi” by “proposalvar4sigmaphi” on line 76.
- Included EUR exchange rates from the European Bank’s Statistical Data Warehouse. Use with “data(exrates)”.
- Added CITATION file.
- Replaced Rprintf by REprintf and cat(…) by cat(…, file=stderr()) for status reports. Thanks to Kurt Hornik for pointing this out.
stochvol 0.6-0
- Introduced “.svsample” for minimal overhead sampling. Intended to be used as a plug-in into other MCMC samplers. No input checking, use with proper care!
- Disabled progress bar in non-Unix-like systems due to problems with console flushing.
- Some bug fixes for solaris. Seems to build fine now. Thanks to Brian Ripley for reporting the bugs.
stochvol 0.5-1
- Replaced all paste0(…) calls by paste(…, sep=’’) for compatibility reasons.
stochvol 0.5-0
- First CRAN release version.