scholarly journals Bayesian Online Change Point Detection in Finance

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 27-33
Author(s):  
Reza Habibi

Abstract It is quite common that the structure of a time series changes abruptly. Identifying these change points and describing the model structure in the segments between these change points is an important task in financial time series analysis. Change point detection is the identification of abrupt changes in the generative parameters of sequential data. In application areas such as finance, online rather than offline detection of change points in time series is mostly required, due to their use in predictive tasks, possibly embedded in automatic trading systems. However, the complex structure of the data generation processes makes this a challenging endeavor. This paper is concerned with online change point detection in financial time series using the Bayesian setting. To this end, the Bayesian posterior probability of change at a specific time is proposed and some procedures are presented for selecting the priors and estimation of parameters. Applications in simulated financial time series are given. Finally, conclusions are proposed.

2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (01) ◽  
pp. 51-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
KYONG JOO OH ◽  
TAE HYUP ROH ◽  
MYUNG SANG MOON

This study suggests time-based clustering models integrating change-point detection and neural networks, and applies them to financial time series forecasting. The basic concept of the proposed models is to obtain intervals divided by change points, to identify them as change-point groups, and to involve them in the forecasting model. The proposed models consist of two stages. The first stage, the clustering neural network modeling stage, is to detect successive change points in the dataset, and to forecast change-point groups with backpropagation neural networks (BPNs). In this stage, three change-point detection methods are applied and compared. They are: (1) the parametric approach, (2) the nonparametric approach, and (3) the model-based approach. The next stage is to forecast the final output with BPNs. Through the application to financial time series forecasting, we compare the proposed models with a neural network model alone and, in addition, determine which of three change-point detection methods performs better. Furthermore, we evaluate whether the proposed models play a role in clustering to reflect the time. Finally, this study examines the predictability of the integrated neural network models based on change-point detection.


Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 1633
Author(s):  
Elena-Simona Apostol ◽  
Ciprian-Octavian Truică ◽  
Florin Pop ◽  
Christian Esposito

Due to the exponential growth of the Internet of Things networks and the massive amount of time series data collected from these networks, it is essential to apply efficient methods for Big Data analysis in order to extract meaningful information and statistics. Anomaly detection is an important part of time series analysis, improving the quality of further analysis, such as prediction and forecasting. Thus, detecting sudden change points with normal behavior and using them to discriminate between abnormal behavior, i.e., outliers, is a crucial step used to minimize the false positive rate and to build accurate machine learning models for prediction and forecasting. In this paper, we propose a rule-based decision system that enhances anomaly detection in multivariate time series using change point detection. Our architecture uses a pipeline that automatically manages to detect real anomalies and remove the false positives introduced by change points. We employ both traditional and deep learning unsupervised algorithms, in total, five anomaly detection and five change point detection algorithms. Additionally, we propose a new confidence metric based on the support for a time series point to be an anomaly and the support for the same point to be a change point. In our experiments, we use a large real-world dataset containing multivariate time series about water consumption collected from smart meters. As an evaluation metric, we use Mean Absolute Error (MAE). The low MAE values show that the algorithms accurately determine anomalies and change points. The experimental results strengthen our assumption that anomaly detection can be improved by determining and removing change points as well as validates the correctness of our proposed rules in real-world scenarios. Furthermore, the proposed rule-based decision support systems enable users to make informed decisions regarding the status of the water distribution network and perform effectively predictive and proactive maintenance.


Author(s):  
Mehdi Moradi ◽  
Manuel Montesino-SanMartin ◽  
M. Dolores Ugarte ◽  
Ana F. Militino

AbstractWe propose an adaptive-sliding-window approach (LACPD) for the problem of change-point detection in a set of time-ordered observations. The proposed method is combined with sub-sampling techniques to compensate for the lack of enough data near the time series’ tails. Through a simulation study, we analyse its behaviour in the presence of an early/middle/late change-point in the mean, and compare its performance with some of the frequently used and recently developed change-point detection methods in terms of power, type I error probability, area under the ROC curves (AUC), absolute bias, variance, and root-mean-square error (RMSE). We conclude that LACPD outperforms other methods by maintaining a low type I error probability. Unlike some other methods, the performance of LACPD does not depend on the time index of change-points, and it generally has lower bias than other alternative methods. Moreover, in terms of variance and RMSE, it outperforms other methods when change-points are close to the time series’ tails, whereas it shows a similar (sometimes slightly poorer) performance as other methods when change-points are close to the middle of time series. Finally, we apply our proposal to two sets of real data: the well-known example of annual flow of the Nile river in Awsan, Egypt, from 1871 to 1970, and a novel remote sensing data application consisting of a 34-year time-series of satellite images of the Normalised Difference Vegetation Index in Wadi As-Sirham valley, Saudi Arabia, from 1986 to 2019. We conclude that LACPD shows a good performance in detecting the presence of a change as well as the time and magnitude of change in real conditions.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriam Sieg ◽  
Lina Katrin Sciesielski ◽  
Karin Kirschner ◽  
Jochen Kruppa

Abstract Background: In longitudinal studies, observations are made over time. Hence, the single observations at each time point are dependent, making them a repeated measurement. In this work, we explore a different, counterintuitive setting: At each developmental time point, a lethal observation is performed on the pregnant or nursing mother. Therefore, the single time points are independent. Furthermore, the observation in the offspring at each time point is correlated with each other because each litter consists of several (genetically linked) littermates. In addition, the observed time series is short from a statistical perspective as animal ethics prevent killing more mother mice than absolutely necessary, and murine development is short anyway. We solve these challenges by using multiple contrast tests and visualizing the change point by the use of confidence intervals.Results: We used linear mixed models to model the variability of the mother. The estimates from the linear mixed model are then used in multiple contrast tests.There are a variety of contrasts and intuitively, we would use the Changepoint method. However, it does not deliver satisfying results. Interestingly, we found two other contrasts, both capable of answering different research questions in change point detection: i) Should a single point with change direction be found, or ii) Should the overall progression be determined? The Sequen contrast answers the first, the McDermott the second. Confidence intervals deliver effect estimates for the strength of the potential change point. Therefore, the scientist can define a biologically relevant limit of change depending on the research question.Conclusion: We present a solution with effect estimates for short independent time series with observations nested at a given time point. Multiple contrast tests produce confidence intervals, which allow determining the position of change points or to visualize the expression course over time. We suggest to use McDermott’s method to determine if there is an overall significant change within the time frame, while Sequen is better in determining specific change points. In addition, we offer a short formula for the estimation of the maximal length of the time series.


2014 ◽  
Vol 536-537 ◽  
pp. 499-511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Zhao ◽  
Qian Liu ◽  
Peng Du ◽  
Ge Fu ◽  
Wei Cao

Change-point detection is the problem of finding abrupt changes in time-series. However, the meaningful changes are usually difficult to identify from the original massive traffics, due to high dimension and strong periodicity. In this paper, we propose a novel change-point detection approach, which simultaneously detects change points from all dimensions of the traffics with three steps. We first reduce the dimensions by the classical Principal Component Analysis (PCA), then we apply an extended time-series segmentation method to detect the nontrivial change times, finally we identify the responsible applications for the changes by F-test. We demonstrate through experiments on datasets collected from four distributed systems with 44 applications that the proposed approach can effectively detect the nontrivial change points from the multivariate and periodical traffics. Our approach is more appropriate for mining the nontrivial changes in traffic data comparing with other clustering methods, such as center-based Kmeans and density-based DBSCAN.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Gustavo C. Uzai ◽  
André Y. Kashiwabara

Time series are sequence of values distributed over time. Analyzing time series is important in many areas including medical, financial, aerospace, commercial and entertainment. Change Point Detection is the problem of identifying changes in meaning or distribution of data in a time series. This article presents Spec, a new algorithm that uses the graph spectrum to detect change points. The Spec was evaluated using the UCR Archive which is a large da- tabase of different time series. Spec performance was compared to the PELT, ECP, EDM, and gSeg algorithms. The results showed that Spec achieved a better accuracy compared to the state of the art in some specific scenarios and as efficient as in most cases evaluated.


2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (05) ◽  
pp. 2150026
Author(s):  
Haizhou Du ◽  
Ziyi Duan ◽  
Yang Zheng

Time series change point detection can identify the locations of abrupt points in many dynamic processes. It can help us to find anomaly data in an early stage. At the same time, detecting change points for long, periodic, and multiple input series data has received a lot of attention recently, and is universally applicable in many fields including power, environment, finance, and medicine. However, the performance of classical methods typically scales poorly for such time series. In this paper, we propose CPMAN, a novel prediction-based change point detection approach via multi-stage attention networks. Our model consists of two key modules. First, in the time series prediction module, we employ the multi-stage attention-based networks and integrate the multi-series fusion mechanism. This module can adaptively extract features from the relevant input series and capture the long-term temporal dependencies. Secondly, in the change point detection module, we use the wavelet analysis-based algorithm to detect change points efficiently and identify the change points and outliers. Extensive experiments are conducted on various real-world datasets and synthetic datasets, proving the superiority and effectiveness of CPMAN. Our approach outperforms the state-of-the-art methods by up to 12.1% on the F1 Score.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-41
Author(s):  
Wai Leong Ng ◽  
Shenyi Pan ◽  
Chun Yip Yau

In this paper, we propose two bootstrap procedures, namely parametric and block bootstrap, to approximate the finite sample distribution of change-point estimators for piecewise stationary time series. The bootstrap procedures are then used to develop a generalized likelihood ratio scan method (GLRSM) for multiple change-point inference in piecewise stationary time series, which estimates the number and locations of change-points and provides a confidence interval for each change-point. The computational complexity of using GLRSM for multiple change-point detection is as low as $O(n(\log n)^{3})$ for a series of length n. Extensive simulation studies are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methodology under different scenarios. Applications to financial time series are also illustrated.


Algorithms ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 128
Author(s):  
Lijing Ma ◽  
Georgy Sofronov

It is very often the case that at some moment a time series process abruptly changes its underlying structure and, therefore, it is very important to accurately detect such change-points. In this problem, which is called a change-point (or break-point) detection problem, we need to find a method that divides the original nonstationary time series into a piecewise stationary segments. In this paper, we develop a flexible method to estimate the unknown number and the locations of change-points in autoregressive time series. In order to find the optimal value of a performance function, which is based on the Minimum Description Length principle, we develop a Cross-Entropy algorithm for the combinatorial optimization problem. Our numerical experiments show that the proposed approach is very efficient in detecting multiple change-points when the underlying process has moderate to substantial variations in the mean and the autocorrelation coefficient. We also apply the proposed method to real data of daily AUD/CNY exchange rate series from 2 January 2018 to 24 March 2020.


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