Smooth test for density

• Main Authors: GHOSH, Aurobindo, BERA, Anil K
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2005
• Subjects: Score test; probability integral transform; model selection; GARCH model; simulation based method; sample size selection; Finance and Financial Management
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5217; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/6216/viewcontent/SSRN_id658861.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Recently econometricians have shifted their attention from point and interval forecasts to density forecasts because at the heart of market risk measurement is the forecast of the probability density functions of various financial variables. In this paper, we propose a formal test for density foreca...