Stochastic Volatility (SV) models are widely used in financial applications. To decide whether standard parametric restrictions are justified for a given dataset, a statistical test is required. In this paper, we develop such a test based on the linear state space representation. We provide a...

Multivariate Volatility Models belong to the class of nonlinear models for financial data. Here we want to focus on multivariate GARCH models. These models assume that the variance of the innovation distribution follows a time dependent process conditional on information which is generated by...

A language of a statistical system is important, even though it bas an effective graphical user interface. A language may be used to control the statistical system at will and to implement new statistical procedures which are not realized in the system at the beginning. This paper introduces the...