Quantcast
Channel: Planet Python
Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 22462

Catalin George Festila: The python arch module for financial econometrics.

$
0
0
This python module arch: is a work-in-progress for ARCH and other tools for financial econometrics, written in Python (and Cython).
The arch python module come with tools for:
  •    Univariate volatility models
  •    Bootstrapping
  •    Multiple comparison procedures
  •    Unit root tests
You can read and see many examples here.
Let's start with instalation into my python 2.7.12 version.
First you need to install this python module with pip tool:
C:\Python27\Scripts>pip install Arch
Collecting Arch
Downloading arch-4.0.tar.gz (107kB)
100% |################################| 112kB 390kB/s
Requirement already satisfied: matplotlib>=1.4 in c:\python27\lib\site-packages (from Arch)
Requirement already satisfied: scipy>=0.15 in c:\python27\lib\site-packages (from Arch)
Collecting patsy>=0.2 (from Arch)
Downloading patsy-0.4.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (233kB)
100% |################################| 235kB 906kB/s
Collecting statsmodels>=0.6 (from Arch)
Downloading statsmodels-0.6.1.tar.gz (7.0MB)
100% |################################| 7.0MB 85kB/s
Collecting pandas>=0.16 (from Arch)
Downloading pandas-0.19.2-cp27-cp27m-win32.whl (6.8MB)
100% |################################| 6.8MB 81kB/s
Requirement already satisfied: numpy>=1.6 in c:\python27\lib\site-packages (from matplotlib>=1.4->Arch)
Requirement already satisfied: python-dateutil in c:\python27\lib\site-packages (from matplotlib>=1.4->Arch)
Requirement already satisfied: cycler in c:\python27\lib\site-packages (from matplotlib>=1.4->Arch)
Requirement already satisfied: pyparsing!=2.0.4,!=2.1.2,>=1.5.6 in c:\python27\lib\site-packages (from matplotlib>=1.4->Arch)
Requirement already satisfied: pytz in c:\python27\lib\site-packages (from matplotlib>=1.4->Arch)
Requirement already satisfied: six in c:\python27\lib\site-packages (from patsy>=0.2->Arch)
Installing collected packages: patsy, pandas, statsmodels, Arch
Running setup.py install for statsmodels ... done
Running setup.py install for Arch ... done
Successfully installed Arch-4.0 pandas-0.19.2 patsy-0.4.1 statsmodels-0.6.1

Thispythonmoduleis verymathematicalandtechnicalso I'llrefer you toa fewexamples.
Can be used in statistical research and econometrics, or the application of mathematics, statistics, and computer science to economic data. 

Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 22462

Trending Articles



<script src="https://jsc.adskeeper.com/r/s/rssing.com.1596347.js" async> </script>