Quick and simple Simulation of a multivariate returns
On 18 February 2008 at 12:30, Attiglah, Mama wrote:
| Hi room, | Just want to find out if we do have any package in R that simulates a | multivariate data using historical values. | What about the simulation but with a long term views on some metrics, | i.e. Mean, Volatility, correlation, etc... | Example, I have a 2 years time series of the returns on 5 asset classes | and I want to project the future returns just on a simulation basis. (It | needs not preserve necessarily their time dependency distribution). | Any model or any Monte Carlo methods or bootstrapping should do, | including a simple block or row re-sampling with repetition. | Please reply on the basic of a multivariate historical data. This is not | a portfolio simulation but a simulation of the portfolio constituents. | Any information is highly appreciated. I've used a simple block bootstrap variant for this in the past. See several posts in the last few weeks, including a rather substantive one by Tim Hesterberg, with a particular warning about my use of block bootstrap. AFAIK no canned function or package does this, but it doesn't take too much effort to set it up. Regards, Dirk
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