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In this paper, we use the generalized Hurst exponent approach to study the multi- scaling behavior of different financial time series. We show that this approach is robust and powerful in detecting different types of multiscaling. We…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2012-05-25 Jozef Barunik , Tomaso Aste , Tiziana Di Matteo , Ruipeng Liu

We introduce a generalization of Higuchi's estimator of the fractal dimension as a new way to characterize the multifractal spectrum of univariate time series. The resulting multifractal Higuchi dimension analysis (MF-HDA) method considers…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-05-25 Carlos Carrizales-Velazquez , Reik V. Donner , Lev Guzmán-Vargas

The Hierarchical Dirichlet Process Hidden Markov Model (HDP-HMM) has been used widely as a natural Bayesian nonparametric extension of the classical Hidden Markov Model for learning from sequential and time-series data. A sticky extension…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-23 Ding Zhou , Yuanjun Gao , Liam Paninski

Different routing strategies may result in different behaviors of traffic on internet. We analyze the correlation of traffic data for three typical routing strategies by the detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) and find that the degree of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2008-06-12 Xiaoyan Zhu , Zonghua Liu , Ming Tang

A number of phenomena in various fields such as geology, atmospheric sciences, economics, to list a few, can be modeled as a fractional Brownian motion indexed by Hurst exponent $H$. This exponent is related to the degree of regularity and…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-05-05 Minkyoung Kang , Brani Vidakovic

The fractional stable motion is a prototypical stochastic process exhibiting both heavy tails and long-range dependence, parameterized via a stability index $\alpha$ and a Hurst exponent $H$. We consider a nonstationary extension where the…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Fabian Mies , Duuk Sikkens

The spacing of nearest levels of the spectrum of a complex network can be regarded as a time series. Joint use of Multi-fractal Detrended Fluctuation Approach (MF-DFA) and Diffusion Entropy (DE) is employed to extract characteristics from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Huijie Yang , Fangcui Zhao , Longyu Qi , Beilai Hu

We use the multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis (MF-DFA) to study the electrical discharge current fluctuations in plasma and show that it has multifractal properties and behaves as a weak anti-correlated process. Comparison of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-04-04 S. Kimiagar , M. Sadegh Movahed , S. Khorram , S. Sobhanian , M. Reza Rahimi Tabar

This contribution addresses the question commonly asked in scientific literature about the sources of multifractality in time series. Two primary sources are typically considered. These are temporal correlations and heavy tails in the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2025-01-16 Robert Kluszczyński , Stanisław Drożdż , Jarosław Kwapień , Tomasz Stanisz , Marcin Wątorek

When common factors strongly influence two cross-correlated time series recorded in complex natural and social systems, the results will be biased if we use multifractal detrended cross-correlation analysis (MF-DXA) without considering…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-04-14 Bao-Gen Li , Dian-Yi Ling , Zu-Guo Yu

Here we propose a method, based on detrended covariance which we call detrended cross-correlation analysis (DXA), to investigate power-law cross-correlations between different simultaneously-recorded time series in the presence of…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2009-11-13 Boris Podobnik , H. Eugene Stanley

Factor analysis (FA) is a statistical tool for studying how observed variables with some mutual dependences can be expressed as functions of mutually independent unobserved factors, and it is widely applied throughout the psychological,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-01 Alex Markham , Mingyu Liu , Bryon Aragam , Liam Solus

Different variants of MFDFA technique are applied in order to investigate various (artificial and real-world) time series. Our analysis shows that the calculated singularity spectra are very sensitive to the order of the detrending…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2023-07-19 P. Oświęcimka , S. Drożdż , J. Kwapień , A. Z. Górski

We study the stochastic behavior of heterogeneous diffusion processes with the power-law dependence $D(x)\sim|x|^{\alpha}$ of the generalized diffusion coefficient encompassing sub- and superdiffusive anomalous diffusion. Based on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-24 Andrey G. Cherstvy , Ralf Metzler

Scale invariance (fractality) is a prominent feature of the large-scale behavior of many stochastic systems. In this work, we construct an algorithm for the statistical identification of the Hurst distribution (in particular, the scaling…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-01-31 Patrice Abry , Gustavo Didier , Oliver Orejola , Herwig Wendt

We present a purely deep neural network-based approach for estimating long memory parameters of time series models that incorporate the phenomenon of long-range dependence. Parameters, such as the Hurst exponent, are critical in…

Stock price prediction is of significant importance in quantitative investment. Existing approaches encounter two primary issues: First, they often overlook the crucial role of capturing short-term stock fluctuations for predicting…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Chengqi Dong , Zhiyuan Cao , S Kevin Zhou , Jia Liu

Numerous estimators have been proposed for factor analysis, and their statistical properties have been extensively studied. In the early 2000s, a novel matrix factorization-based approach, known as Matrix Decomposition Factor Analysis…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Yoshikazu Terada

The market efficiency hypothesis has been proposed to explain the behavior of time series of stock markets. The Black-Scholes model (B-S) for example, is based on the assumption that markets are efficient. As a consequence, it is…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2019-03-20 Carlos Arturo Soto Campos , Leopoldo Sánchez Cantú , Zeus Hernández Veleros

The paper presents the comparative study of the nature of stock markets in short-term and long-term time scales with and without structural break in the stock data. Structural break point has been identified by applying Zivot and Andrews…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-03-10 Ajit Mahata , Debi Prasad Bal , Md Nurujjaman