/* Title: rndKMsta for GAUSS 3.6+ Author: J. Huston McCulloch (mcculloch.2@osu.edu) Date: May 7, 2001 This code is provided gratis without any guarantees or warrantees. Proprietary modifications of this code are not permitted. Please cite this code should it be used extensively in a research project. */ /* This file contains the stable random number generator subroutine rndKMsta for GAUSS 3.6+. It is similar to the author's RNDSTA and RNDSSTA, but is based on the GAUSS 3.6+ "Kiss Monster" rndKMu random number generator. At the head of the file is a demonstration driver program that calls rndKMsta, lets you type in alpha and beta, and makes nice graphs and histograms of the results. Values of alpha in [1.6, 1.9], with beta in [-.3, .3], simulate many financial asset returns. Values of alpha in [1, 1.2] with beta = -1 often simulate icicles. See the comments at the beginning of rndKMsta below for arguments, returns, and details. See J. Huston McCulloch "Financial Applications of Stable Distributions", in _Handbook of Statistics_, vol. 14, 1996, pp. 393-425, for a survey of pertinent literature. */ /* Driver program to demonstrates rndKMsta */ new; library pgraph; graphset; _pdate = ""; _pltype = 6; _pgrid = {1,1}; r = 1000; newdraw: print "Enter a value of alpha in [.1,2] "; print "(Enter 0 to exit.)"; alpha = con(1,1); if alpha == 0; end; endif; print "Enter a value of beta in [-1,1] "; beta = con(1,1); x = seqa(1,1,r); @ State = -1 uses clock for KM seed @ {y, state} = rndKMsta(r, 1, alpha, beta, -1); xlabel(""); ylabel("x"); xy(x,y); print "View graph, then press any key to continue."; wait; yy = sortc(y,1); ymedian = yy[r/2]; @ (roughly) @ dy = 9.5; yy = maxc(yy'|(ymedian-dy)*ones(1,rows(y))); yy = minc(yy'|(ymedian+dy)*ones(1,rows(y))); xlabel("Outermost bins include tails, empty bins appear slightly nonempty"); ylabel("frequency"); {breaks,midpoint,count} = hist(yy,55); print "View histogram, then press any key to continue."; wait; goto newdraw; end; proc(2) = rndKMsta(r, c, alpha, beta, state); /* Returns rXc matrix x of iid standard stable pseudo-random numbers with characteristic exponent alpha in [.1,2], and skewness parameter beta in {-1, 1], using method of Chambers, Mallows and Stuck (JASA 1976, 340-4), in conjunction with the GAUSS 3.6+ rndKMu uniform random number generator. Encoded in GAUSS by J. Huston McCulloch, Ohio State University Econ Dept. (mcculloch.2@osu.edu), 4/01, directly from the CMS equation (4.1). Outputs: {x, state} state is the state variable used by rndKMu. On input on the first call, this may be an integer seed in [0, 2^32-1]. Alternatively, setting seed = -1 lets the clock determine the seed. On subsequent calls, it is the 500x1 state vector returned by rndKMsta itself as the second output. Each call uses up 2*r*c uniform pseudo-random numbers from rndKMu, so the period is 2^(3859-1) = 2^3858. In the simple symmetric case beta = 0, each r.v. in x has log characteristic function log E exp(ixt) = -abs(t)^alpha When alpha = 2, the distribution is Gaussian, with variance 2. When alpha = 1, the distribution is standard Cauchy. If alpha > 1, Ex = 0. In all symmetric cases, the median is 0. If you are only interested in the symmetric case, you may read no further. In the general case with beta /= 0, the CMS method was applied in such a way that each x will have the standard (delta =0, c = 1) characteristic function log Eexp(ixt) = -abs(t)^alpha*(1-i*beta*sign(t)*tan(pi*alpha/2)), for alpha /= 1, = -abs(t)*(1+i*beta*(2/pi)*sign(t)*log(abs(t))), for alpha = 1. With this parameterization, Ex = delta = 0 when alpha > 1, so that if the distribution is positively skewed (beta > 0), med(x) must become very negative as alpha approaches 1 from above. For alpha < 1, delta is the "focus of stability", so that if beta > 0, med(x) must become very positive as alpha approaches 1 from below. If beta /= 0, there is therefore a discontinuity in the distribution as a function of alpha as alpha passes 1. CMS remove this discontinuity by subtracting zeta = beta*tan(pi*alpha/2) (equivalent to their -tan(alpha*phi0)) from x for alpha /= 1 in their program RSTAB (also known as GGSTA in IMSL)). The result is a random number whose distribution is a continuous function of alpha, but whose location parameter has no known useful interpretation other than computational convenience. The present program restores the standard parameterization by using the CMS (4.1), but with zeta added back in (ie with their initial tan(alpha*phi0) deleted). When alpha is precisely unity, x is computed from the CMS (2.4). Rather than using the CMS D2 and exp2 functions to compensate for ill- conditioning of (4.1) when alpha is very near 1, the present program merely fudges these cases by computing x from (2.4) and adjusting for zeta when alpha is within 1.e-8 of 1. This should make no difference for simulation results with samples of size less than approximately 10^8, and then only when the desired alpha is within 1.e-8 of 1. In the symmetric case beta = 0, the above issues do not arise, and the program automatically uses a faster and simpler version of the general formula. Separate procs for the symmetric and asymmetric cases are not required. When alpha = 2, the distribution is Gaussian, with variance 2, regardless of beta. When alpha = 1 and beta = 0, the distribution is standard Cauchy. When alpha = .5 and beta = 1, the distribution is Levy (reciprocal Chi-squared(1)). */ local phi, w, zeta, aphi, a1phi, x, cosphi, bphi; if alpha < .1 or alpha > 2; format /rdn 10,4; print "Alpha must be in [.1,2] for proc RNDSTA."; print "Actual value is " alpha; if alpha < .1 and alpha > 0; print "If alpha <.1, the probability of overflow output is non-negligible."; endif; stop; endif; if abs(beta) > 1; format /rdn 10,4; print "Beta must be in [-1,1] for proc RNDSTA."; print "Actual value is " beta; stop; endif; {w,state} = rndKMu(r,c,state); w = -ln(w); {phi,state} = rndKMu(r,c,state); phi = (phi-.5)*pi; @ Symmetric cases: @ @ Gaussian case: @ if alpha == 2; retp(2 * sqrt(w) .* sin(phi), state); endif; @ Cauchy case: @ if alpha == 1 and beta == 0; retp(tan(phi), state); endif; @ Symmetric stable case: @ if beta == 0; retp((cos((1-alpha) * phi) ./ w) ^ (1/alpha - 1) .* sin(alpha * phi) ./ cos(phi) ^ (1/alpha), state); endif; @ Asymmetric cases: @ cosphi = cos(phi); if abs(alpha-1) > 1.e-8; zeta = beta * tan(pi*alpha/2); aphi = alpha * phi; a1phi = (1 - alpha) * phi; x = ((sin(aphi) + zeta * cos(aphi)) ./ cosphi) .* ((cos(a1phi) + zeta * sin(a1phi)) ./ (w .* cosphi))^((1-alpha)/alpha); retp(x, state); endif; bphi = (pi/2) + beta * phi; x = (2/pi) * (bphi .* tan(phi) - beta * ln((pi/2) * w .* cosphi ./ bphi)); if alpha == 1; retp(x, state); else; @ fudges case abs(alpha-1) <= 1.e-8 @ zeta = beta * tan(pi * alpha/2); retp(x + zeta, state); endif; endp;