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Analytic Correlation Matrix

February 8th, 2008, 12:30 am

Does anyone know of a good analytic formula that can describe a correlation matrix (for example for term structures) with a few parameters?
 
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Analytic Correlation Matrix

February 8th, 2008, 4:54 am

rho(i,j) = b1 + (1-b1)*exp(-b2*abs(t(i) - t(j)))see this.