[R-SIG-Finance] cdf of skewed t distribution using fGARCH vs skewt package

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Brian G. Peterson wrote:
> Alex Chan wrote:
>> I ran a AR(p)-GARCH (1,1) - skewed t using the fGARCH package. When I 
>> tried to use the sstd option in fgarch to return the cdf of the  
>> standardized residuals z and compared it with the results obtained 
>> using the skewt package, I obtained different results even though 
>> both skewed t dist are based on Fernandez and steel. Since the 
>> standardized inovations are supposed to be iid with mean o and 
>> variance 1, i used   psstd(z, mean = 0, sd = 1, nu , xi ). Anyone can 
>> explain why this might be the case?   
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