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+## Copyright (C) 1995-2012 Kurt Hornik
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
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+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {[@var{a}, @var{b}] =} arch_fit (@var{y}, @var{x}, @var{p}, @var{iter}, @var{gamma}, @var{a0}, @var{b0})
+## Fit an ARCH regression model to the time series @var{y} using the
+## scoring algorithm in Engle's original ARCH paper. The model is
+##
+## @example
+## @group
+## y(t) = b(1) * x(t,1) + @dots{} + b(k) * x(t,k) + e(t),
+## h(t) = a(1) + a(2) * e(t-1)^2 + @dots{} + a(p+1) * e(t-p)^2
+## @end group
+## @end example
+##
+## @noindent
+## in which @math{e(t)} is @math{N(0, h(t))}, given a time-series vector
+## @var{y} up to time @math{t-1} and a matrix of (ordinary) regressors
+## @var{x} up to @math{t}. The order of the regression of the residual
+## variance is specified by @var{p}.
+##
+## If invoked as @code{arch_fit (@var{y}, @var{k}, @var{p})} with a
+## positive integer @var{k}, fit an ARCH(@var{k}, @var{p}) process,
+## i.e., do the above with the @math{t}-th row of @var{x} given by
+##
+## @example
+## [1, y(t-1), @dots{}, y(t-k)]
+## @end example
+##
+## Optionally, one can specify the number of iterations @var{iter}, the
+## updating factor @var{gamma}, and initial values @math{a0} and
+## @math{b0} for the scoring algorithm.
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at>
+## Description: Fit an ARCH regression model
+
+function [a, b] = arch_fit (y, x, p, iter, gamma, a0, b0)
+
+ if ((nargin < 3) || (nargin == 6) || (nargin > 7))
+ print_usage ();
+ endif
+
+ if (! (isvector (y)))
+ error ("arch_fit: Y must be a vector");
+ endif
+
+ T = length (y);
+ y = reshape (y, T, 1);
+ [rx, cx] = size (x);
+ if ((rx == 1) && (cx == 1))
+ x = autoreg_matrix (y, x);
+ elseif (! (rx == T))
+ error ("arch_fit: either rows (X) == length (Y), or X is a scalar");
+ endif
+
+ [T, k] = size (x);
+
+ if (nargin == 7)
+ a = a0;
+ b = b0;
+ e = y - x * b;
+ else
+ [b, v_b, e] = ols (y, x);
+ a = [v_b, (zeros (1, p))]';
+ if (nargin < 5)
+ gamma = 0.1;
+ if (nargin < 4)
+ iter = 50;
+ endif
+ endif
+ endif
+
+ esq = e.^2;
+ Z = autoreg_matrix (esq, p);
+
+ for i = 1 : iter;
+ h = Z * a;
+ tmp = esq ./ h.^2 - 1 ./ h;
+ s = 1 ./ h(1:T-p);
+ for j = 1 : p;
+ s = s - a(j+1) * tmp(j+1:T-p+j);
+ endfor
+ r = 1 ./ h(1:T-p);
+ for j = 1:p;
+ r = r + 2 * h(j+1:T-p+j).^2 .* esq(1:T-p);
+ endfor
+ r = sqrt (r);
+ X_tilde = x(1:T-p, :) .* (r * ones (1,k));
+ e_tilde = e(1:T-p) .*s ./ r;
+ delta_b = inv (X_tilde' * X_tilde) * X_tilde' * e_tilde;
+ b = b + gamma * delta_b;
+ e = y - x * b;
+ esq = e .^ 2;
+ Z = autoreg_matrix (esq, p);
+ h = Z * a;
+ f = esq ./ h - ones(T,1);
+ Z_tilde = Z ./ (h * ones (1, p+1));
+ delta_a = inv (Z_tilde' * Z_tilde) * Z_tilde' * f;
+ a = a + gamma * delta_a;
+ endfor
+
+endfunction