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http://dx.doi.org/10.7465/jkdi.2017.28.4.831

Approximation of π by financial historical data  

Jang, Dae-Heung (Department of Statistics, Pukyong National University)
Uhm, TaeWoong (Department of Statistics, Pukyong National University)
Yi, Seongbaek (Department of Statistics, Pukyong National University)
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Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society / v.28, no.4, 2017 , pp. 831-841 More about this Journal
Abstract
The irrational number ${\pi}$ is defined as the ratio of circumference of a circle to its radius and always becomes constant. This article does Monte Carlo approximation of its value using the famous Buffon's needle experiment and shows that its convergence is not always proportional to the sample size. We also do Monte Carlo simulations to see the convergence of the computed ${\pi}$ values from the random walk series with independent normal increment. Finally we apply the theoretical derivation to various financial time series data such as KOSPI, stock prices of Korean big firms, global stock indices and major foreign exchange rates. The historical data shows that log transformed data random walk process but most of their first lagged data don't follow a normal distribution. More importantly the computed value from the ratio of the regression coefficient ${\pi}$ tend to converge a constant, unfortunately not ${\pi}$. Using this result we could doubt on the efficient market hypothesis, and relate the degree of the hypothesis with the amount of deviation of the estimated ${\pi}$ values.
Keywords
Buffon's needle; ${\pi}$; random walk;
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