out.of.sample.forecast.cov.estimators.wrt.data {dse2}R Documentation

Calculate Out-of-Sample Forecasts

Description

Calculate out-of-sample forecasts.

Usage

    out.of.sample.forecast.cov.estimators.wrt.data(data, zero=F, trend=F,
                       estimation.sample=.5, horizons=1:12,quiet=F,
                       estimation.methods=NULL, compiled=.DSECOMPILED)

Arguments

data An object of class TSdata.
estimation.methods A list as used by estimate.models.
zero If T then forecast.cov is also calculated for a forecast of zero.
trend If T then forecast.cov is also calculated for a forecast of a linear trend.
estimation.sample Indicates the portion of the data to use for estimation. If estimation.sample is an integer then it is used to indicate the number of points in the sample to use for estimation. If it is a fracton it is used to indicate the portion of points to use for estimation. The remainder of the sample is used for evaluating forecasts.
horizons Horizons for which forecast covariance should be calculated.
quiet If T then estimation information is not printed.

Details

The data is slpit into a sub-sample used for estimation and another sub-sample used for calculating the forecast covariance.

Value

An object as returned by forecast.cov.estimators.wrt.data.

See Also

forecast.cov.estimators.wrt.data, forecast.cov.estimators.wrt.true, estimate.models

Examples

if(is.R()) data("eg1.DSE.data.diff", package="dse1")
z <-  out.of.sample.forecast.cov.estimators.wrt.data(eg1.DSE.data.diff,
           estimation.methods=list(est.VARX.ls=list(max.lag=4)))