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Re: st: rolling moments


From   annoporci <annoporci@gmail.com>
To   statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject   Re: st: rolling moments
Date   Sun, 23 Dec 2012 05:57:55 +0800

I forgot to add, this is my best shot:

rolling sd=r(sd) skewness=r(skewness) kurtosis=r(kurtosis), window (60) clear: summarize, detail
The problem is that it generates a lot of gaps because of missing data.


On Sat, 22 Dec 2012 23:28:22 +0800, annoporci <annoporci@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Statalist,

I have financial data whose statistical properties I'd like to analyze. I'm new to this so any pointer would be appreciated.
I would like to do the following:

plot a moving average of the mean/sd/skewness/kurtosis, where either I would use a fixed horizon, e.g. 60 observations (add one drop one as you move with time) or I would use exponentially declining weights on distant observations, for a fixed predetermined weight parameter.
I have found user-contributed programs to do that for the mean/sd, but  
not for the skewness and kurtosis. I'm especially interested in the  
kurtosis. In fact, I would like to also compute semi-kurtosis, e.g.  
semi-kurtosis for negative returns or for returns below average.
I could probably work this out on my own by writing down the formulas in  
terms of the first 4 moments, but I have read exchanges that suggest  
that efficiency issues may be important, so I'd like to start on the  
right track, and would thus appreciate your suggestions.
my dataset has the date and the daily return for different portfolios  
x1, x2, x3, etc. over a 30 year period, so efficiency in the code is  
likely to be necessary.
many thanks,

Patrick.

my main reference:
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2008-08/msg00153.html
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