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Pour accéder aux propriétés essentielles d'un signal physique il peut être commode de le considérer comme une réalisation d'un processus aléatoire (voir quelques précisions dans Processus continu). Le problème est largement simplifié si le processus associé au signal peut être considéré comme un processus stationnaire, c'est-à-dire si ses propriétés statistiques caractérisées par des espérances mathématiques sont indépendantes du temps. Lorsque cette hypothèse est vraisemblable, le processus bâti autour du signal est rendu ergodique, les moyennes temporelles étant identiques aux moyennes d'ensemble. On trouvera ci-dessous quelques éléments qui précisent un peu ces notions. L'hypothèse stationnaire est admise dans de nombreux modèles théoriques, facile à réaliser dans des simulations numériques, beaucoup plus difficile voire impossible à justifier à propos d'un signal réel, faute de pouvoir accéder à d'autres réalisations du même processus. Il faut très généralement se contenter d'une

SPHARMA approximations for stationary functional time series on the sphere

Alessia Caponera

In this paper, we focus on isotropic and stationary sphere-cross-time random fields. We first introduce the class of spherical functional autoregressive-moving average processes (SPHARMA), which extend in a natural way the spherical functional autoregressions (SPHAR) recently studied in Caponera and Marinucci (Ann Stat 49(1):346-369, 2021) and Caponera et al. (Stoch Process Appl 137:167-199, 2021); more importantly, we then show that SPHAR and SPHARMA processes of sufficiently large order can be exploited to approximate every isotropic and stationary sphere-cross-time random field, thus generalizing to this infinite-dimensional framework some classical results on real-valued stationary processes. Further characterizations in terms of functional spectral representation theorems and Wold-like decompositions are also established.

2021

Bayesian risk analysis of financial time series

Christophe Osinski

This thesis is a contribution to financial statistics. One of the principal concerns of investors is the evaluation of portfolio risk. The notion of risk is vague, but in finance it is always linked to possible losses. In this thesis, we present some measures allowing the valuation of risk with the help of Bayesian methods. An exploratory analysis of data is presented to describe the sampling properties of financial time series. This analysis allows us to understand the origins of the daily returns studied in this thesis. Moreover, a discussion of different models is presented. These models make strong assumptions on investor behaviour, which are not always satisfied. This exploratory analysis shows some differences between the behaviour anticipated under equilibrium models, and that of real data. The Bayesian approach has been chosen because it allows one to incorporate all the variability, in particular that associated with model choice. The models studied in this thesis allow one to take heteroskedasticity into account, as well as particular shapes of the tails of returns. ARCH type models and models based on extreme value theory are studied. One original aspect of this thesis is its use of Bayesian analysis to detect change points in financial time series. We suppose that a market has two phases, and that it switches from a state to the other at random. Another new contribution is a model integrating heteroskedasticity and time dependence of extreme values, by superposition of the model proposed by Bortot and Coles (2003) and a GARCH process. This thesis uses simulation intensively for the estimation of risk measures. The drawback of simulation is the amount of time needed to obtain accurate estimates. However, simulation allows one to produce results when direct calculation is not feasible. For example, simulation allows one to compute risk estimates for time horizons greater than one day. The methods presented in this thesis are illustrated on simulated data, and on real data from European and American markets. This thesis involved the construction of a library containing C and S code to perform risk analysis using GARCH and extreme value theory models. The results show that model uncertainty can be incorporated, and that risk measures for time horizons greater than one can be obtained by simulation. The methods presented in this thesis have a natural representation involving conditioning. Thus, they permit the computation of both conditional and unconditional risk estimates. Three methods are described: the GARCH method; the two-state GARCH method; and the HBC method. Unconditional risk estimation using the GARCH method is satisfactory on data which seem stationary, but not reliable on data which are non-stationary, such as data with change points. The two-state GARCH model does a little better, but gives very satisfactory results when the risk is estimated conditionally on time. The HBC method does not give satisfactory results.

EPFL2006

Bayesian risk analysis of financial time series

Christophe Osinski

EPFL2006