Research Article

Smoothed Conditional Scale Function Estimation in AR(1)-ARCH(1) Processes

Table 2

Mean average squared errors (MASE).

Kern. func.

mase (.25)

Gaussian2500.00170.00130.00100.00080.00100.0009
5000.00110.00080.00080.00070.00070.0006
1,0000.00060.00040.00050.00040.00050.0004

Epanech2000.00120.00090.00130.00110.00110.0009
5000.00070.00060.00100.00080.00110.0009
1,0000.00060.00040.00070.00050.00060.0005

Triweight2000.00050.00050.00060.00050.00060.0005
5000.00060.00050.00050.00040.00050.0004
1,0000.00030.00020.00030.00020.00040.0003

mase (.50)

Gaussian2500.00540.00450.00630.00550.00510.0043
5000.00360.00290.00480.00420.00470.0038
1,0000.00280.00220.00250.00210.00280.0023

Epanech2000.00670.00570.01050.00910.00710.0060
5000.00450.00360.00570.00460.00420.0034
1,0000.00310.00260.00410.00330.00290.0023

Triweight2000.00080.00070.00300.00260.00390.0034
5000.00230.00200.00210.00180.00250.0021
1,0000.00190.00160.00160.00130.00160.0013

mase (.75)

Gaussian2500.02340.01830.02370.01970.02940.0253
5000.02270.01780.02230.01780.01710.0132
1,0000.00990.00790.01380.01100.01250.0095

Epanech2000.01560.01230.02660.02230.02740.0227
5000.01840.01520.02350.01890.01810.0147
1,0000.01620.01300.01020.00740.01360.0106

Triweight2000.01900.01760.01450.01270.01670.0150
5000.01120.00990.01310.01130.00970.0081
1,0000.00750.00640.00730.00580.00690.0056

mase (.90)

Gaussian2500.08800.06920.11800.08930.09710.0770
5000.04680.03770.08900.06440.07420.0525
1,0000.09320.06900.04910.03670.05100.0365

Epanech2000.06640.05770.10740.08660.10500.0844
5000.08160.05150.08270.06250.08790.0617
1,0000.07400.05100.04490.03150.03730.0274

Triweight2000.05100.04340.04520.03820.04670.0402
5000.04530.03370.03900.03330.03910.0328
1,0000.01720.01330.02680.02050.02670.0209