Prediction accuracy and sloppiness of log-periodic functions
- Brée, David S. Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland
- Challet, Damien Physics Department, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Peirano, Pier Paolo Capital Fund Management, Paris, France
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21.09.2011
Published in:
- Quantitative Finance. - 2013, vol. 13, no. 2, p. 275-280
English
We show that log-periodic power-law (LPPL) functions are intrinsically very hard to fit to time series. This comes from their sloppiness, the squared residuals depending very much on some combinations of parameters and very little on other ones. The time of singularity that is supposed to give an estimate of the day of the crash belongs to the latter category. We discuss in detail why and how the fitting procedure must take into account the sloppy nature of this kind of model. We then test the reliability of LPPLs on synthetic AR(1) data replicating the Hang Seng 1987 crash and show that even this case is borderline regarding the predictability of the divergence time. We finally argue that current methods used to estimate a probabilistic time window for the divergence time are likely to be over-optimistic.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences et de médecine
- Department
- Département de Physique
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Economics
- License
- License undefined
- Identifiers
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- RERO DOC 31947
- DOI 10.1080/14697688.2011.607467
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/302953
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