/*
 Copyright (C) 2008 Richard Gomes

 This source code is release under the BSD License.

 This file is part of JQuantLib, a free-software/open-source library
 for financial quantitative analysts and developers - http://jquantlib.org/

 JQuantLib is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
 under the terms of the JQuantLib license.  You should have received a
 copy of the license along with this program; if not, please email
 . The license is also available online at
 .

 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
 ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
 FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the license for more details.

 JQuantLib is based on QuantLib. http://quantlib.org/
 When applicable, the original copyright notice follows this notice.
 */

/*
 Copyright (C) 2006 Joseph Wang

 This file is part of QuantLib, a free-software/open-source library
 for financial quantitative analysts and developers - http://quantlib.org/

 QuantLib is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
 under the terms of the QuantLib license.  You should have received a
 copy of the license along with this program; if not, please email
 . The license is also available online at
 .

 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
 ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
 FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the license for more details.
 */

package org.jquantlib.model.volatility;

import java.util.Iterator;

import org.jquantlib.time.Date;
import org.jquantlib.time.TimeSeries;

/**
 * Constant-estimator volatility model
 * 

* Volatilities are assumed to be expressed on an annual basis. * * @author Richard Gomes */ // TODO : Test cases public class ConstantEstimator implements VolatilityCompositor { private final /* @NonNegative */int size; public ConstantEstimator(final/* @NonNegative */int size) { this.size = size; } @Override public void calibrate(final TimeSeries timeSeries) { // nothing } @Override public TimeSeries calculate(final TimeSeries quotes) { // // This method employs a different algorithm from original QuantLib/C++ sources. The reasons are: // 1. The original algorithm is knowingly inefficient, fact pointed out by the original author. // 2. TimeSeries as it is implemented by JQuantLib/Java does not [intentionally] allow random walk // thru its elements, which leaded us to adopt Iterators instead. // final TimeSeries retval = new TimeSeries(Double.class); final Iterator it1 = quotes.navigableKeySet().iterator(); double sumu2 = 0.0, sumu = 0.0; Date d1 = null; // advance 'size' elements and accumulate results for (int i=0; i it2 = quotes.navigableKeySet().iterator(); Date d2; while (it1.hasNext()) { // add a new element to calculation d1 = it1.next(); final double u = quotes.get(d1); sumu += u; sumu2 += u * u; // remove an old element from calculation d2 = it2.next(); final double v = quotes.get(d2); sumu -= v; sumu2 -= v * v; // assign next result retval.put(d1, Math.sqrt(sumu2/size - sumu*sumu/size/(size+1)) ); } return retval; } }

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