In the Heston stochastic volatility model, the transition probability of the variance process can be represented by a non-central chi-square density. We focus on the case when the number of degrees of freedom is small and the zero boundary is attracting and attainable, typical in foreign exchange markets. We prove a new representation for this density based on sums of powers of generalized Gaussian random variables. Further we prove Marsaglia's polar method extends to this distribution, providing an exact method for generalized Gaussian sampling . The advantages are that for the mean-reverting square-root process in the Heston model and Cox-Ingersoll-Ross model, we can generate samples from the true transition density simply, efficiently and robustly .
The transition probability of a Cox-Ingersoll-Ross process can be represented by a non-central chi-square density. First we prove a new representation for the central chi-square density based on sums of powers of generalized Gaussian random variables. Second we prove Marsaglia's polar method extends to this distribution, providing a simple, exact, robust and efficient acceptance-rejection method for generalized Gaussian sampling and thus central chi-square sampling. Third we derive a simple, high-accuracy, robust and efficient direct inversion method for generalized Gaussian sampling based on the Beasley-Springer-Moro method. Indeed the accuracy of the approximation to the inverse cumulative distribution function is to the tenth decimal place. We then apply our methods to non-central chi-square variance sampling in the Heston model . We focus on the case when the number of degrees of freedom is small and the zero boundary is attracting and attainable, typical in foreign exchange markets. Using the additivity property of the chi-square distribution, our methods apply in all parameter regimes .
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