报 告 人：张正军 教授
报告题目：Generalized Measures of Correlation and Their Implications in GARCH and Heston Models
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报告地点：静远楼1506学术报告厅
报告摘要：Applicability of Pearson's correlation as a measure of explained variance is by now well understood. One of its limitations is that it does not account for asymmetry in explained variance. Aiming to obtain broad applicable correlation measures, we use a pair of r-squares of generalized regression to deal with asymmetries in explained variances, and linear or nonlinear relations between random variables. We call the pair of r-squares of generalized regression generalized measures of correlation (GMC). We present examples under which the paired measures are identical, and they become a symmetric correlation measure which is the same as the squared Pearson's correlation coefficient. As a result, Pearson's correlation is a special case of GMC. Theoretical properties of GMC show that GMC can be applicable in numerous applications and can lead to more meaningful conclusions and decision making. In statistical inferences, the joint asymptotics of the kernel based estimators for GMC are derived and are used to test whether or not two random variables are symmetric in explaining variances. The testing results give important guidance in practical model selection problems. In real data analysis, this talk presents ideas of using GMCs as an indicator of suitability of asset pricing models, and hence new pricing models may be motivated from this indicator.
张正军教授简介：
美国威斯康辛大学麦迪逊主校统计系教授，副系主任。2002年毕业于北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校，获统
先后担任JBES、JKSS、Statistics and Its Interface副主编，NSF、NSA、FQRNT（加拿大）专家组成员，国际顶级SCI期刊审稿人；2012-2015担任泛华统计学会理 事；2004，2005荣获美国国家自然基金新星指导荣誉奖。在包括"四大天王"在内的统计学杂志上发表SCI论文近30篇。