Hi all, I was trying garchFIt() of fSeries to fit volatility of monthly log returns of S&P500. I tried residuals of normal, student t, skew normal, skew t. But all innovations except normal got exaxtly same coefficients, even if I changed their parameters of skew and shape. Is this correct for the data or something wrong? I am attaching the code, thank you. Muster #GARCH analysis of monthly return rm(list=ls(all=TRUE)) sp500 <- read.csv('s&p_m.csv', header=TRUE) sp500 <- sp500[,2] #only adjusted close n <- length(sp500) logr <- log(sp500[1:n-1] / sp500[2:n]) acf(logr) ar5 <- arima(logr, order = c(5, 0, 0), include.mean = T) logr<- ar5$res #remove mean acf(logr) #fit GARCH distribution hist(logr, freq = F, ylim = c(0, 12), breaks = 'FD') norm_fit <- normFit(logr) curve(dnorm(x, norm_fit$est[1], norm_fit$est[2]), -.15, .15, add = TRUE, col=2) t_fit <- stdFit(logr) curve(dstd(x, t_fit$est[1], t_fit$est[2], t_fit$est[3]), -.15, .15, add TRUE, col=6) snorm_fit <- snormFit(logr) curve(dsnorm(x, snorm_fit$est[1], snorm_fit$est[2], snorm_fit$est[3]), -.25, .15, add = TRUE, col=4) st_fit <- sstdFit(logr) curve(dsstd(x, st_fit$est[1], st_fit$est[2], st_fit$est[3], st_fit$est[4]), -.25, .15, add = TRUE, col=3) library(fSeries) #normal innovation garch_norm <- garchFit(series = logr, include.mean = F) #t inovation garch_t <- garchFit(series = logr, cond.dist = 'dstd', include.mean = F, include.shape = T) garch_t1 <- garchFit(series = logr, cond.dist = 'dstd', include.mean = F, shape = t_fit$est[3], include.shape = T) #skew normal innovation garch_snorm <- garchFit(series = logr, cond.dist = 'dsnorm', include.mean F, include.skew = T) garch_snorm1 <- garchFit(series = logr, cond.dist = 'dsnorm', include.mean F, skew = snorm_fit$est[3], include.skew = T) #skew t innovation garch_st <- garchFit(series = logr, cond.dist = 'dsstd', include.mean = F, include.skew = T, include.shape = T) garch_st1 <- garchFit(series = logr, cond.dist = 'dsstd', include.mean = F, skew = st_fit$est[4], shape = st_fit$est[3], include.skew = T, include.shape= T) [[alternative HTML version deleted]]