Nonlinear multivariate statistical techniques on fast computers offer the potential to capture more of the dynamics of the high dimensional, noisy systems underlying financial markets than traditional models, while making fewer restrictive assumptions. This thesis presents a collection of practical techniques to address important estimation and confidence issues for Radial Basis Function networks arising from such a data driven approach, including efficient methods for parameter estimation and pruning, a pointwise prediction error estimator, and a methodology for controlling the "data mining'' problem. Novel applications in the finance area are described, including customized, adaptive option pricing and stock price prediction.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:MIT/oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/6783 |
| Date | 01 December 1993 |
| Creators | Hutchinson, James M. |
| Source Sets | M.I.T. Theses and Dissertation |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Format | 160 p., 681549 bytes, 2849290 bytes, application/octet-stream, application/pdf |
| Relation | AITR-1457 |
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