Calculating Covariance for Effective Stock Portfolio Management

Discover how to calculate covariance to assess stock relationships and optimize your portfolio, balancing risk and potential ...
Simon Fraser University

Covariance Matrix

The estimated covariance matrix of the parameter estimates is computed as the inverse Hessian matrix, and for unconstrained problems it should be positive definite. If the final parameter estimates ...
International Monetary Fund

High-Dimensional Covariance Matrix Estimation: Shrinkage Toward a Diagonal Target

This paper proposes a novel shrinkage estimator for high-dimensional covariance matrices by extending the Oracle Approximating Shrinkage (OAS) of Chen et al. (2009) to target the diagonal elements of ...
Simon Fraser University

Generalized Estimating Equations

X ij = [x ij1, ... , x ijp]' The Generalized Estimating Equation of Liang and Zeger (1986) for estimating the p ×1 vector of regression parameters is an extension of the independence estimating ...