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PINstimation

Estimation of the Probability of Informed Trading

v0.2.0 · Dec 17, 2025 · GPL (>= 3)

Description

A comprehensive bundle of utilities for the estimation of probability of informed trading models: original PIN in Easley and O'Hara (1992) and Easley et al. (1996); Multilayer PIN (MPIN) in Ersan (2016); Adjusted PIN (AdjPIN) in Duarte and Young (2009); and volume-synchronized PIN (VPIN) in Easley et al. (2011, 2012). Implementations of various estimation methods suggested in the literature are included. Additional compelling features comprise posterior probabilities, an implementation of an expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm, and PIN decomposition into layers, and into bad/good components. Versatile data simulation tools, and trade classification algorithms are among the supplementary utilities. The package provides fast, compact, and precise utilities to tackle the sophisticated, error-prone, and time-consuming estimation procedure of informed trading, and this solely using the raw trade-level data.

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies Rdpack knitr skellam nloptr furrr future dplyr rmarkdown coda magrittr tidyr PINstimation

Version History

new 0.2.0 Mar 10, 2026
updated 0.2.0 ← 0.1.2 diff Dec 16, 2025
updated 0.1.2 ← 0.1.1 diff Mar 20, 2023
updated 0.1.1 ← 0.1.0 diff Oct 18, 2022
new 0.1.0 May 26, 2022