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Implement VaR back testing in Python
Posted by Shawn Zhang
on November 16, 2012
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Introduction
We are going to model a VaR back testing in Python, including customize confidence level, span of testing horizon, and statistic testing on VaR model and binomial test .
even in most case , functional programming will supply this practice enough , but I'll do it in OO for a more clear demonstration.
Model a VaR
let's see full code first, and broke them into segments and analysis by parts .
class VaR():
def __init__(self, return_list, conf = 0.95, n = 100):
self.return_list Read more [...]