Fitting Infinitely divisible distribution: Case of Gamma-Variance Model
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The paper examines the Fractional Fourier Transform (FRFT) based technique as tools for obtaining the probability density function and its derivatives; and broadly for fitting stochastic model with the fundamental probabilistic relationships of infinite divisibility. The probability density functions are computed and the distributional proprieties such as leptokurtosis, peakedness, and asymmetry are reviewed for Variance-Gamma (VG) model and Compound Poisson with Normal Compounding model. The first and second derivatives of probability density function of the VG model are also investigated. The VG model has been increasingly used as an alternative to the Classical Lognormal Model (CLM) in modelling asset price. The VG model with fives parameters was estimated by the FRFT. The data comes from the SPY historical data, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY). The Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) goodness-of-fit shows that the VG model fits better the cumulative distribution of the sample data than the CLM. The best VG model comes from the FRFT estimation.
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