covariance matrix

[gigifaye29]

Hello,

Just a quick question about getting covariance matrix with QuantLib. I went through the matrixutilities folder and found the method getcovariance() ; however, it takes a correlation matrix as an input.

Does Quantlib have available method that directly takes the time series(of factors) and return the covariance matrix(of the factors)?

thx,
XC

[Sylvain Bertrand]

Hi,

The covariance matrix is 1/n * M * t(M).
You could use the operators defined here (http://quantlib.org/reference/class_quant_lib_1_1_matrix.html) to get your cov matrix.

Rgds,
Sylvain

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 1:34 PM, gigifaye29 <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hello,

Just a quick question about getting covariance matrix with QuantLib. I went
through the matrixutilities folder and found the method getcovariance() ;
however, it takes a correlation matrix as an input.

Does Quantlib have available method that directly takes the time series(of
factors) and return the covariance matrix(of the factors)?

thx,
XC
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[Luigi Ballabio]

On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 10:34 -0700, gigifaye29 wrote:
> Does Quantlib have available method that directly takes the time series(of
> factors) and return the covariance matrix(of the factors)?

Yes---you can use the SequenceStatistics class.  Write back if you need
advice on how to use it.

Luigi


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