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Table 4 Out-of-sample R-square statistics of different models

From: Return direction forecasting: a conditional autoregressive shape model with beta density

\(R^2_{oos}\)(%)

Whole sample

Expansion

Recession

B-CARS(1,1)

0.099

0.056

0.329\(^{**}\)

\(ntis_{-}\)

\(-0.044\)

0.231\(^{**}\)

\(-0.160\)

\(ltr_{-}\)

0.164\(^{**}\)

1.11\(^{**}\)

0.557\(^{*}\)

  1. [1] We use \(x_{-}\) to represent B-CARS(1,1) with x as exogeneous variable
  2. [2] We use \(^{***}\),\(^{**}\) and \(^{*}\) to represent significance at the level of 1%, 5% and 10% respectively