fGarch: possible bug in .plot.garch.13

Yohan Chalabi chalabi at phys.ethz.ch
Tue May 6 12:23:04 CEST 2008


>>>> "MM" == michal miklovic <mmiklovic at yahoo.com>
>>>> on Thu, 1 May 2008 05:01:31 -0700 (PDT)


   MM> I was wondering why qq plots for my models with cond.dist =
   MM> std suggest that standardised residuals have thinner tails
   MM> than the student distribution with the estimated shape
   MM> parameter. Then, I found a possible bug in .plot.garch.13,
   MM> where I would suggest to delete the current definitions of
   MM> 'skew' and 'shape' and include them into the if statements
   MM> in the following way:

Hi Michal,


Thanks to point this out!

the change I commited is different from your suggestion in order to be
consistent if "skew" and "shape" have been fitted.

regards,
Yohan 

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