Estimer le biais de survivance dans un univers de backtest actions

# 15_survivorship_bias_detection.py


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# %% [markdown] tags=[]
# # Survivorship Bias Detection and Quantification
#
# **Docker image**: `ml4t`
#
# ## Purpose
#
# `01_us_equities_eda` ended on an anomaly: the **US equities panel** records 777 symbols
# leaving it, and every single one leaves in 2014 or later. This notebook picks that up and
# asks the question a backtest actually depends on:
#
# > For the window where the panel *does* record exits, how much does a portfolio that
# > silently drops the leavers overstate its return?
#
# Answering it takes three steps, and the middle one is where the work is:
#
# 1. **Read the exit record** and establish what the panel does and does not know about
#    the symbols that left.
# 2. **Repair the return series.** The adjusted prices contain unadjusted corporate actions.
#    Left uncorrected they do not merely add noise — they reverse the sign of the answer.
# 3. **Quantify the bias**, modelling the one quantity the panel cannot observe: what a holder
#    received *after* the last quote.
#
# ## Learning objectives
#
# - Separate symbols that left the panel from symbols that survived to its final date.
# - Distinguish what a price panel observes (a path to a last quote) from what a delisting
#   study needs (a terminal outcome), and reason about why the gap forces a modelling step.
# - Detect unadjusted splits and reorganisations by their return signature, and see how a
#   handful of bad rows propagates into a headline number.
# - Build CRSP-calibrated delisting scenarios and put a percentile band around the bias.
# - Distinguish *survivorship* completeness from *universe* completeness.
#
# ## Book reference
#
# Chapter 2, §2.3 (data-quality framework — survivorship bias).
#
# ## Prerequisites
#
# - US equities parquet under `ML4T_DATA_PATH`; loader `data.load_us_equities`.
# - Read `01_us_equities_eda` first.

# %% tags=[]
"""Survivorship Bias Detection — quantifying bias in the US equities panel."""

import pickle
from datetime import date, timedelta

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
import plotly.graph_objects as go
import polars as pl
from IPython.display import Markdown, display
from plotly.subplots import make_subplots

from data import load_us_equities
from utils.paths import get_chapter_dir
from utils.reproducibility import set_global_seeds
from utils.style import COLORS, show_plotly_with_alt, show_with_alt

# %% [markdown]
# ### Declared parameters
#
# The Monte Carlo bias estimates the chapter cites are anchored to this seed; overriding it
# moves the reported numbers.
#
# `ANALYSIS_START` is the one parameter that carries an argument. §1 shows the panel records no
# exit before 2014, so a window opening earlier spends its first years measuring a delisting
# rate that is zero by construction. From 2014 to the panel's final date is the only span over
# which the panel behaves like a live universe.
#
# `MAX_TRUSTED_RETURN` is one-sided because of what it encodes: a long position cannot lose
# more than everything, so an implausible daily return can only be a gain.
# `MIN_SESSION_COVERAGE` is the share of the universe a session has to quote before it counts
# as a session at all. §3 uses both.

# %% tags=["parameters"]
SEED = 42
N_SIMS = 1000  # Monte Carlo draws per scenario
MC_BAND = (10, 90)  # percentile band reported around each scenario's bias
ANALYSIS_START = "2014-01-01"
MAX_TRUSTED_RETURN = 1.0
MIN_SESSION_COVERAGE = 0.2

# %% tags=[]
set_global_seeds(SEED)

PALETTE = {  # every chart below draws from this, so no plotting cell defines its own
    "survivors": COLORS["copper"],  # the biased portfolio — the wrong answer
    "universe": COLORS["blue"],  # the full universe — the reference
    "bull": COLORS["slate"],
    "stress": COLORS["neutral"],
    "gap": COLORS["amber_light"],
    "rule": COLORS["neutral"],
}

# %% [markdown] tags=[]
# ## 1. The exit record
#
# A symbol has *left* the panel if its last observation predates the panel's final date.
# Everything else is still quoted when the feed stops.

# %% tags=[]
wiki = load_us_equities()

print(f"Panel shape: {wiki.shape}")
print(f"Date range: {wiki['timestamp'].min()} to {wiki['timestamp'].max()}")
print(f"Unique symbols: {wiki['symbol'].n_unique():,}")

# %% tags=[]
dataset_end = wiki["timestamp"].max()

lifespans = (
    wiki.group_by("symbol")
    .agg(
        [
            pl.col("timestamp").min().alias("first_date"),
            pl.col("timestamp").max().alias("last_date"),
            pl.len().alias("trading_days"),
        ]
    )
    .with_columns((pl.col("last_date") < dataset_end).alias("has_left"))
)

n_total = lifespans.height
n_left = lifespans.filter(pl.col("has_left")).height
n_survived = n_total - n_left

print(f"Panel final date: {dataset_end}")
print(f"Total symbols:    {n_total:,}")
print(f"Still quoted:     {n_survived:,} ({n_survived / n_total:.1%})")
print(f"Left the panel:   {n_left:,} ({n_left / n_total:.1%})")

# %% tags=[]
exits_by_year = (
    lifespans.filter(pl.col("has_left"))
    .with_columns(pl.col("last_date").dt.year().alias("year"))
    .group_by("year")
    .agg(pl.len().alias("exits"))
    .sort("year")
)
exits_by_year

# %% [markdown] tags=[]
# ### The exit record starts abruptly

# %% tags=[]
fig = go.Figure()
fig.add_trace(
    go.Bar(
        x=exits_by_year["year"].to_list(),
        y=exits_by_year["exits"].to_list(),
        marker_color=PALETTE["survivors"],
        name="Symbols leaving the panel",
    )
)
fig.update_layout(
    title="Symbols leaving the panel, by year of last observation",
    xaxis_title="Year of last observation",
    yaxis_title="Symbols",
    xaxis=dict(range=[lifespans["first_date"].min().year - 1, dataset_end.year + 1]),
    height=420,
    showlegend=False,
)
show_plotly_with_alt(
    fig,
    "A bar chart of how many symbols were last observed in each year, over an axis "
    "spanning more than five decades. The axis is empty for almost its whole length. Bars "
    "appear only in the final handful of years, rising to their tallest at the right-hand "
    "edge where the panel ends.",
)

# %% [markdown] tags=[]
# ### Reading the chart
#
# The bars occupy the last five calendar years of a fifty-six-year panel — 2014 through the
# March 2018 cutoff. The rest of the axis is empty.
#
# That is not a claim about the equity market. Firms were acquired, went private and went
# bankrupt throughout the panel's history — Enron was delisted from the NYSE in January 2002,
# and it is not in this file's exit record because it is not in this file at all. The chart is a
# claim about **the data collection process**: exit information was not being captured, and then
# around 2014 it started being captured.
#
# The mechanism is the panel's provenance. It was assembled from the community-maintained
# Quandl WIKI feed: the symbols that existed when the project ran, each backfilled to its own
# IPO. Symbols that had already died were never added, so their departure was never recorded.
# Once the feed was live, symbols leaving it *were* recorded. Then contributor interest decayed,
# and in March 2018 the feed stopped.
#
# This is the tax on free public data, and it has a precise consequence: **for the pre-2014 era
# the panel cannot tell us what we are missing.** Not "the bias is small" — unknown. The only
# window over which the panel behaves like a live universe is 2014 to the final date, so that
# is the window this notebook measures.

# %% [markdown] tags=[]
# ## 2. What the panel cannot tell us
#
# Suppose we know exactly which symbols left. Why model their outcomes at all — why not just
# read off what happened to them?
#
# Because the panel does not contain it. Fourteen columns: `symbol`, `timestamp`, raw OHLCV,
# `ex-dividend`, `split_ratio`, and the five `adj_*` prices. Nothing else.
#
# | What we need | Where it lives | In this panel? |
# |---|---|---|
# | The price path while the symbol traded | `adj_close` | Yes |
# | *Why* the symbol stopped trading | CRSP `DLSTCD` (delisting code) | **No** |
# | What a holder received *after* the last quote | CRSP `DLRET` (delisting return) | **No** |
#
# A last quote is not a terminal value. When a firm is acquired, holders are paid the deal
# consideration after the tape goes quiet. When a firm is liquidated, holders receive a
# residual, often near zero, sometimes months later. Neither payment appears in a price file.
#
# It is worse than a missing column. The panel does not even reliably observe the *date* of the
# exit. Symbols in §3 sit at stale quotes on zero volume for days before they vanish, and the
# feed's coverage was decaying the entire time. A symbol disappearing from this file can mean
# "acquired", "liquidated", or "the contributors stopped updating it".
#
# So the terminal return is **unobservable here, and must be modelled**. §4 builds three
# scenarios from published CRSP outcome rates. This is a real cost of the free panel, not a
# stylistic choice: with CRSP the terminal return is a column, and §4 through §6 collapse into
# a `join`.

# %% [markdown] tags=[]
# ## 3. The adjusted prices are not clean
#
# Before measuring anything, one check. The bias is a difference between two compounded return
# series, so a single bad daily return propagates into the headline. Look for returns the
# market cannot produce.
#
# A long position cannot lose more than everything, so the test is one-sided: only a gain can
# be implausibly large, and a daily gain past `MAX_TRUSTED_RETURN` is either a genuinely
# extraordinary event or an unadjusted corporate action.

# %% tags=[]
window_start = date.fromisoformat(ANALYSIS_START)
window_end = dataset_end  # loader returns a `date`

panel = wiki.filter(
    (pl.col("timestamp").dt.date() >= window_start) & (pl.col("timestamp").dt.date() <= window_end)
)

# Universe = symbols quoted within the first month of the window.
first_month = window_start + timedelta(days=30)
universe = (
    panel.group_by("symbol")
    .agg(pl.col("timestamp").min().alias("first_date"))
    .filter(pl.col("first_date").dt.date() <= first_month)["symbol"]
    .to_list()
)
panel = panel.filter(pl.col("symbol").is_in(universe))

returns = (
    panel.sort(["symbol", "timestamp"])
    .with_columns(
        [
            (pl.col("adj_close") / pl.col("adj_close").shift(1).over("symbol") - 1).alias("ret"),
            pl.col("volume").shift(1).over("symbol").alias("prev_volume"),
        ]
    )
    .drop_nulls("ret")
)

print(f"Window: {window_start} to {window_end}")
print(f"Universe at start: {len(universe):,} symbols, {len(returns):,} daily returns")

# %% tags=[]
# The largest daily gains in the window, with the corporate-action inputs alongside.
returns.sort("ret", descending=True).head(6).select(
    ["symbol", "timestamp", "close", "adj_close", "split_ratio", "prev_volume", "ret"]
)

# %% [markdown] tags=[]
# Every one of these is a corporate action the adjustment missed, and the `split_ratio` column
# records no split for any of them:
#
# - **HERO** (Hercules Offshore) emerged from Chapter 11 on 2015-11-06. The old equity was
#   cancelled and new shares were issued on the same ticker. The two prices either side of the
#   jump are quotes for two different securities, so their ratio is not a return. Note the
#   zero volume on the days before: those pre-emergence quotes are stale.
# - **PCO** (Pendrell) ran a one-for-a-hundred reverse split on 2017-12-05, and the
#   `split_ratio` column never fired.
# - **EXXI** (Energy XXI) relisted post-bankruptcy on the same ticker.
#
# The table above carries the prices; what matters here is that each is a step of two orders
# of magnitude printed as an ordinary session.
#
# Two rules follow directly, and both are diagnostic rather than cosmetic — they say
# *"we cannot compute a return across this event"*, and drop it, rather than shrinking it
# toward something plausible:
#
# 1. A daily return above `MAX_TRUSTED_RETURN` is not trusted.
# 2. A daily return computed off a prior session that printed **zero volume** is not trusted
#    — the denominator is a stale quote.
#
# Both fire on observable evidence, and neither touches genuine crashes. GT Advanced
# Technologies lost most of its value on 2014-10-06 when it filed for Chapter 11, on millions
# of shares of real volume. That is a return: the loss is one-sided in the direction the
# first rule does not test, and the volume clears the second.

# %% tags=[]
returns = returns.with_columns(
    ((pl.col("ret") > MAX_TRUSTED_RETURN) | (pl.col("prev_volume") == 0)).alias("suspect")
)

n_suspect = returns.filter(pl.col("suspect")).height
n_suspect_symbols = returns.filter(pl.col("suspect"))["symbol"].n_unique()
print(f"Untrusted returns: {n_suspect:,} of {len(returns):,} ({n_suspect / len(returns):.4%})")
print(f"Symbols affected:  {n_suspect_symbols} of {len(universe):,}")

gtat = returns.filter((pl.col("symbol") == "GTAT") & (pl.col("ret") < -0.9))
print("\nControl — GTAT's Chapter 11 filing, a real crash:")
print(gtat.select(["symbol", "timestamp", "ret", "prev_volume", "suspect"]))

# %% [markdown] tags=[]
# ### Phantom sessions
#
# One more artifact, on the calendar rather than the prices. A handful of symbols — LFVN and END
# above all — print quotes on days the US market was closed. A session that only a sliver of the
# universe trades on is not a session, and its cross-sectional mean is not a portfolio return.

# %% tags=[]
session_coverage = returns.group_by("timestamp").agg(pl.len().alias("quoted")).sort("timestamp")
real_sessions = session_coverage.filter(pl.col("quoted") >= MIN_SESSION_COVERAGE * len(universe))
phantom = session_coverage.filter(pl.col("quoted") < MIN_SESSION_COVERAGE * len(universe))

print(f"Sessions kept:    {real_sessions.height:,}")
print(
    f"Phantom sessions: {phantom.height} (fewer than {MIN_SESSION_COVERAGE:.0%} of the universe quoted)"
)
phantom

# %% [markdown] tags=[]
# Six of these are US market holidays — Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Presidents' Day, Good Friday,
# Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day — and 2017-04-14 is Good Friday again. The panel had
# no business quoting any of them.
#
# `2014-01-02` is different, and it is a nice illustration of how one bad row breeds another. That
# session was genuinely open. It looks empty because a *return* needs a prior quote, and the only
# symbol with a 2014-01-01 quote to difference against is LFVN — which printed on New Year's Day.
# The rule catches it anyway, which is what a rule keyed to evidence rather than to a holiday
# calendar is for.

# %% tags=[]
returns = returns.filter(pl.col("timestamp").is_in(real_sessions["timestamp"].to_list()))

# %% [markdown] tags=[]
# ## 4. Delisting outcome scenarios
#
# The terminal return — what a holder received after the last quote — is unobservable here
# (§2), so we model the *mix* of outcomes rather than any individual one.
#
# Each scenario specifies how the leavers split across three exit types, and what a holder
# earns in each. The shares come from CRSP tabulations; the returns from the delisting-return
# literature.
#
# **Sources**
#
# - Eckbo & Lithell (2025), *Merger-Driven Listing Dynamics*, JFQA — Table A1 Panel B,
#   2,805 CRSP delistings, 2010–2020.
# - Doidge, Karolyi & Stulz (2017), *Are There Too Few Publicly Listed Firms?*
# - Shumway (1997) and Beaver, McNichols & Price (2007) on delisting returns.
#
# **The load-bearing fact**: M&A dominates US delistings, and outright bankruptcy is rare
# enough that it does not earn a row of its own here. A cause delisting is usually a
# compliance failure - a low price, a late filing - rather than a firm going under. The
# shares and returns are in `SCENARIOS` below and printed in the table that follows it.
#
# **A caveat we carry forward.** These terminal returns are applied *on the delisting date*.
# For acquisitions that is generous: deal premiums accrue as rumours circulate and the price
# converges toward the offer, so by the last quote most of the premium is already in the
# observed path. Applying it again at exit double-counts. §6 measures what this assumption is
# worth.

# %% tags=[]
SCENARIOS = {
    "Empirical 2010-2020": {
        "description": "CRSP empirical rates (Eckbo & Lithell 2025)",
        "cause_share": 0.257,  # compliance / performance failures
        "acquisition_share": 0.655,  # M&A, including going-private deals
        "other_share": 0.088,  # voluntary + unknown
        "cause_return": -0.60,  # compliance failures: stock already depressed
        "acquisition_return": 0.25,  # typical M&A premium
        "other_return": 0.0,  # exit at market
    },
    "Bull Market": {
        "description": "High M&A activity (2014-2018 pattern)",
        "cause_share": 0.18,
        "acquisition_share": 0.73,  # peak M&A share (2018)
        "other_share": 0.09,
        "cause_return": -0.50,
        "acquisition_return": 0.30,  # higher premiums under competitive bidding
        "other_return": 0.0,
    },
    "Stress Period": {
        "description": "Higher distress (2010, 2020 pattern)",
        "cause_share": 0.32,
        "acquisition_share": 0.53,  # reduced M&A
        "other_share": 0.15,
        "cause_return": -0.80,
        "acquisition_return": 0.15,
        "other_return": -0.10,
    },
}

OUTCOMES = ["cause", "acquisition", "other"]
OUTCOME_LABELS = {
    "cause": "Cause (compliance)",
    "acquisition": "Acquisition (M&A)",
    "other": "Other (voluntary)",
}


def expected_terminal(params: dict) -> float:
    """Share-weighted terminal return for one scenario."""
    return sum(params[f"{o}_share"] * params[f"{o}_return"] for o in OUTCOMES)


scenario_table = pl.DataFrame(
    [
        {
            "scenario": name,
            **{f"{o}_share": p[f"{o}_share"] for o in OUTCOMES},
            **{f"{o}_return": p[f"{o}_return"] for o in OUTCOMES},
            "expected_terminal": round(expected_terminal(p), 4),
        }
        for name, p in SCENARIOS.items()
    ]
)
scenario_table

# %% [markdown] tags=[]
# The two panels below are the whole scenario definition: who leaves how, and what a holder
# earns when they do. The expected terminal return in the right-hand panel is the
# share-weighted average — and note it is *positive* in two of three scenarios, because
# acquisitions dominate and acquisitions pay a premium.

# %% tags=[]
scenario_names = list(SCENARIOS)
bar_colors = [PALETTE["universe"], PALETTE["bull"], PALETTE["stress"]]

fig = make_subplots(
    rows=1,
    cols=2,
    subplot_titles=("Share of exits by outcome", "Terminal return by outcome"),
    horizontal_spacing=0.15,
)
for i, outcome in enumerate(OUTCOMES):
    fig.add_trace(
        go.Bar(
            x=scenario_names,
            y=[SCENARIOS[s][f"{outcome}_share"] for s in scenario_names],
            name=OUTCOME_LABELS[outcome],
            marker_color=bar_colors[i],
            legendgroup=outcome,
        ),
        row=1,
        col=1,
    )
    fig.add_trace(
        go.Bar(
            x=scenario_names,
            y=[SCENARIOS[s][f"{outcome}_return"] for s in scenario_names],
            name=OUTCOME_LABELS[outcome],
            marker_color=bar_colors[i],
            legendgroup=outcome,
            showlegend=False,
        ),
        row=1,
        col=2,
    )
fig.add_trace(
    go.Scatter(
        x=scenario_names,
        y=[expected_terminal(SCENARIOS[s]) for s in scenario_names],
        mode="markers",
        marker=dict(
            color=PALETTE["survivors"], size=13, symbol="diamond", line=dict(color="white", width=1)
        ),
        name="Expected terminal (share-weighted)",
    ),
    row=1,
    col=2,
)
# Label the diamonds off to the side so the grouped bars never cover them.
for name in scenario_names:
    value = expected_terminal(SCENARIOS[name])
    fig.add_annotation(
        x=name,
        y=value,
        text=f"{value:+.1%}",
        showarrow=False,
        xshift=42,
        font=dict(size=11, color=PALETTE["survivors"]),
        bgcolor="rgba(255,255,255,0.85)",
        row=1,
        col=2,
    )
fig.add_hline(y=0, line_color=PALETTE["rule"], line_width=1, row=1, col=2)
fig.update_yaxes(title_text="Share of exits", tickformat=".0%", row=1, col=1)
fig.update_yaxes(title_text="Terminal return", tickformat=".0%", row=1, col=2)
fig.update_xaxes(tickangle=-20)
fig.update_layout(
    barmode="group",
    height=470,
    title="Delisting outcome shares and terminal returns, by scenario",
    legend=dict(orientation="h", yanchor="bottom", y=-0.42, xanchor="center", x=0.5),
)
show_plotly_with_alt(
    fig,
    "Two panels side by side, each with three scenarios along the horizontal axis and "
    "grouped bars for the three exit types. The left panel shows the share of exits of "
    "each type: acquisitions are the tallest bar in every scenario, cause delistings the "
    "second, and other exits the smallest. The right panel shows the terminal return of "
    "each type: acquisition bars sit above zero, cause bars well below it, and a diamond "
    "marks the share-weighted average for each scenario with its value labelled beside it.",
)

# %% [markdown] tags=[]
# ## 5. The two portfolios
#
# Both are equal-weighted and rebalanced daily, and both use **the same convention** — a
# holding is averaged in on every session it is held, contributing zero on a session it is not
# quoted. The only difference is who is in them:
#
# - **Biased**: the survivors only. This is what a backtest built from a "current constituents"
#   list gets, and it is the wrong answer.
# - **Full universe**: every symbol quoted at the start. Leavers are held until their exit
#   session, where they are liquidated at `1 + terminal_return`.
#
# `bias = biased − full universe`. **A positive bias means the survivors-only portfolio
# overstates.**

# %% tags=[]
window_lifespans = panel.group_by("symbol").agg(pl.col("timestamp").max().alias("last_date"))
exit_threshold = window_end - timedelta(days=15)  # buffer for holiday closures

leavers = window_lifespans.filter(pl.col("last_date").dt.date() < exit_threshold)
survivors = window_lifespans.filter(pl.col("last_date").dt.date() >= exit_threshold)

print(f"Universe at start:   {len(universe):,}")
print(f"Left during window:  {leavers.height:,} ({leavers.height / len(universe):.1%})")
print(f"Survived the window: {survivors.height:,}")


# %% tags=[]
def build_panel_matrices(returns: pl.DataFrame, drop_suspect: bool) -> dict:
    """Precompute both portfolios' daily returns and the exit schedule.

    `drop_suspect` nulls the returns flagged in §3; the symbol then simply has no return that
    session, exactly as if it had not been quoted.

    The per-session equal-weight return of the *full universe before terminal effects* does not
    depend on the terminal returns, so it is computed once here and reused across every Monte
    Carlo draw. Only the exit-session contribution varies.
    """
    frame = returns
    if drop_suspect:
        frame = frame.with_columns(
            pl.when(pl.col("suspect")).then(None).otherwise(pl.col("ret")).alias("ret")
        )

    wide = frame.pivot(on="symbol", index="timestamp", values="ret").sort("timestamp")
    symbols = [c for c in wide.columns if c != "timestamp"]
    sessions = wide["timestamp"].to_numpy()
    ret = wide.drop("timestamp").to_numpy()  # NaN where the symbol was not quoted

    last = dict(zip(window_lifespans["symbol"], window_lifespans["last_date"], strict=True))
    last_session = np.array([np.datetime64(last[s]) for s in symbols])
    is_survivor = np.isin(symbols, survivors["symbol"].to_numpy())

    alive = sessions[:, None] <= last_session[None, :]  # still in the panel at t
    held = np.vstack([np.ones((1, len(symbols)), bool), alive[:-1]])  # held at close of t-1
    # Only a leaver exits. A survivor whose feed stops a few sessions early is not a delisting.
    exits = (~alive) & held & ~is_survivor[None, :]

    contribution = np.nan_to_num(ret) * held  # unquoted-but-held contributes 0
    n_held_universe = np.maximum(held.sum(1), 1)
    n_held_survivors = np.maximum(held[:, is_survivor].sum(1), 1)

    exit_session, exit_symbol = np.nonzero(exits)  # one pair per leaver

    return {
        "symbols": symbols,
        "sessions": sessions,
        "is_survivor": is_survivor,
        "n_held_universe": n_held_universe,
        # Equal-weight daily return before any terminal effect.
        "base_universe": contribution.sum(1) / n_held_universe,
        "base_survivors": contribution[:, is_survivor].sum(1) / n_held_survivors,
        "exit_session": exit_session,
        "exit_symbol": exit_symbol,
    }


def universe_path(m: dict, terminal: np.ndarray | float) -> np.ndarray:
    """$100-based value path of the full-universe portfolio.

    `terminal` is the return each leaver realises on its exit session — a per-symbol array, or
    a scalar applied to every leaver.
    """
    terminal_by_exit = (
        np.full(m["exit_symbol"].size, terminal)
        if np.isscalar(terminal)
        else np.asarray(terminal)[m["exit_symbol"]]
    )
    daily = m["base_universe"].copy()
    np.add.at(daily, m["exit_session"], terminal_by_exit / m["n_held_universe"][m["exit_session"]])
    return 100.0 * np.cumprod(1 + daily)


def survivor_path(m: dict) -> np.ndarray:
    """$100-based value path of the survivors-only portfolio. No terminal events by definition."""
    return 100.0 * np.cumprod(1 + m["base_survivors"])


def total_return(path: np.ndarray) -> float:
    """Percentage total return of a $100-based value path."""
    return float(path[-1]) - 100.0


# %% [markdown] tags=[]
# ### How much does the repair in §3 matter?
#
# Run both portfolios on the raw returns and on the repaired returns, with the terminal return
# switched off, so the only moving part is the untrusted rows flagged above.

# %% tags=[]
matrices = {
    "raw": build_panel_matrices(returns, drop_suspect=False),
    "repaired": build_panel_matrices(returns, drop_suspect=True),
}

repair_rows = []
for label, mat in matrices.items():
    biased = total_return(survivor_path(mat))
    full = total_return(universe_path(mat, 0.0))
    repair_rows.append(
        {
            "returns": label,
            "survivors_only_pct": round(biased, 1),
            "full_universe_pct": round(full, 1),
            "bias_pp": round(biased - full, 1),
        }
    )
repair_table = pl.DataFrame(repair_rows)
repair_table

# %% [markdown] tags=[]
# The sign flips. On the raw series the survivors-only portfolio appears to *underperform* the
# full universe; on the repaired series it overstates, which is the direction the literature
# reports. The share of rows deciding that is printed above and is a small fraction of one
# percent, because a daily-rebalanced equal-weight portfolio compounds every row it is given
# and one reorganisation printed as a two-hundred-fold gain moves a two-thousand-name
# portfolio by double digits in a single session.
#
# This is Chapter 2's own lesson turned on Chapter 2's own analysis: the survivorship check
# cannot run ahead of the corporate-action check. Everything below uses the repaired series.

# %% tags=[]
m = matrices["repaired"]
leaver_symbols = [s for s, surv in zip(m["symbols"], m["is_survivor"], strict=True) if not surv]
n_leavers = m["exit_symbol"].size

biased_path = survivor_path(m)
biased_return = total_return(biased_path)
print(f"Biased portfolio (survivors only): {biased_return:+.1f}%")
print(f"Leavers with a recorded exit session: {n_leavers:,}")

# %% [markdown] tags=[]
# ## 6. Quantify the bias
#
# For each scenario, draw an outcome for every leaver from its share vector, assign the
# matching terminal return, and compound the full-universe portfolio. Repeat `N_SIMS` times to
# get a percentile band on the bias.
#
# The draws are independent across several hundred symbols, so the band will be tight. That
# tightness measures **sampling** uncertainty and nothing else. It says nothing about whether
# the outcome shares are right — and §6.1 shows that is where the real uncertainty lives.

# %% tags=[]
rng = np.random.default_rng(SEED)


def run_monte_carlo(params: dict, n_sims: int) -> np.ndarray:
    """Bias distribution in percentage points, one draw of leaver outcomes per simulation."""
    shares = [params[f"{o}_share"] for o in OUTCOMES]
    payoffs = np.array([params[f"{o}_return"] for o in OUTCOMES])

    bias = np.empty(n_sims)
    for i in range(n_sims):
        drawn = rng.choice(len(OUTCOMES), size=n_leavers, p=shares)
        # `universe_path` indexes terminal by symbol, so scatter the draw back onto symbols.
        terminal = np.zeros(len(m["symbols"]))
        terminal[m["exit_symbol"]] = payoffs[drawn]
        bias[i] = biased_return - total_return(universe_path(m, terminal))
    return bias


scenario_results = {}
for name, params in SCENARIOS.items():
    bias = run_monte_carlo(params, N_SIMS)
    scenario_results[name] = {
        "bias_median": float(np.median(bias)),
        "bias_low": float(np.percentile(bias, MC_BAND[0])),
        "bias_high": float(np.percentile(bias, MC_BAND[1])),
        # The book figure script reads a 10-90 band by name from the artifact below, so
        # those two percentiles are computed here regardless of what MC_BAND is set to.
        "bias_p10": float(np.percentile(bias, 10)),
        "bias_p90": float(np.percentile(bias, 90)),
        # Representative path: every leaver assigned the scenario's expected terminal return.
        "path": universe_path(m, expected_terminal(params)),
        "expected_cause": int(n_leavers * params["cause_share"]),
        "expected_acquisition": int(n_leavers * params["acquisition_share"]),
        "expected_other": int(n_leavers * params["other_share"]),
    }

bias_summary = pl.DataFrame(
    [
        {
            "scenario": name,
            "expected_cause": r["expected_cause"],
            "expected_acquisition": r["expected_acquisition"],
            "expected_other": r["expected_other"],
            "bias_median_pp": round(r["bias_median"], 2),
            f"bias_p{MC_BAND[0]}_pp": round(r["bias_low"], 2),
            f"bias_p{MC_BAND[1]}_pp": round(r["bias_high"], 2),
        }
        for name, r in scenario_results.items()
    ]
)
bias_summary

# %% [markdown] tags=[]
# ### Where the uncertainty actually lives
#
# Two ways to be wrong about the bias. The Monte Carlo prices one of them.

# %% tags=[]
mc_width = np.mean([r["bias_high"] - r["bias_low"] for r in scenario_results.values()])
scenario_spread = max(r["bias_median"] for r in scenario_results.values()) - min(
    r["bias_median"] for r in scenario_results.values()
)
no_terminal_bias = biased_return - total_return(universe_path(m, 0.0))

display(
    Markdown(
        f"| Source of uncertainty | Magnitude |\n"
        f"|---|---:|\n"
        f"| Sampling — which leaver draws which outcome ({N_SIMS:,} draws) | {mc_width:.1f} pp |\n"
        f"| Assumption — which scenario's outcome shares are right | {scenario_spread:.1f} pp |\n"
        f"| Data quality — whether §3's repair is applied | "
        f"{abs(repair_table['bias_pp'][0] - repair_table['bias_pp'][1]):.1f} pp |\n\n"
        f"The bias with no terminal return at all is **{no_terminal_bias:+.1f} pp**, against "
        f"**{scenario_results['Empirical 2010-2020']['bias_median']:+.1f} pp** under the empirical "
        f"scenario. The entire Monte Carlo apparatus — three scenarios, {N_SIMS:,} draws each — "
        f"moves the answer by "
        f"**{abs(scenario_results['Empirical 2010-2020']['bias_median'] - no_terminal_bias):.1f} pp**. "
        f"Most of the bias is the *observed* returns of the symbols that left, not the modelled "
        f"returns of what happened to them afterwards. Spend the modelling effort accordingly."
    )
)

# %% [markdown] tags=[]
# ## 7. Summary figure
#
# Left: the two portfolio paths, with the gap between them shaded. Right: the bias under each
# scenario, with the Monte Carlo band declared as `MC_BAND`.

# %% tags=[]
sessions = m["sessions"]
empirical = scenario_results["Empirical 2010-2020"]
# Colour alone does not separate three navy scenarios; pair each with a linestyle.
scenario_colors = {
    "Empirical 2010-2020": PALETTE["universe"],
    "Bull Market": PALETTE["bull"],
    "Stress Period": PALETTE["stress"],
}
scenario_linestyles = {"Empirical 2010-2020": "--", "Bull Market": ":", "Stress Period": "-."}


def plot_paths(ax: plt.Axes) -> None:
    """Left panel: survivors-only against the full universe under each scenario."""
    ax.plot(
        sessions,
        biased_path,
        color=PALETTE["survivors"],
        linewidth=2.5,
        label=f"Survivors only: {biased_return:+.1f}%",
    )
    for name, results in scenario_results.items():
        ax.plot(
            sessions,
            results["path"],
            color=scenario_colors[name],
            linewidth=1.6,
            linestyle=scenario_linestyles[name],
            label=f"{name}: bias {results['bias_median']:+.1f} pp",
        )
    ax.fill_between(sessions, biased_path, empirical["path"], alpha=0.3, color=PALETTE["gap"])
    ax.axhline(100, color=PALETTE["rule"], linestyle=":", alpha=0.5)
    ax.set_xlabel("Date")
    ax.set_ylabel("Portfolio value ($100 initial)")
    ax.set_title("Equal-weight portfolio: survivors only vs full universe")
    ax.legend(loc="upper left", fontsize=9)


def plot_bias(ax: plt.Axes) -> None:
    """Right panel: median bias per scenario, with the declared percentile band."""
    names = list(scenario_results)
    medians = [scenario_results[s]["bias_median"] for s in names]
    lower = [medians[i] - scenario_results[s]["bias_low"] for i, s in enumerate(names)]
    upper = [scenario_results[s]["bias_high"] - medians[i] for i, s in enumerate(names)]
    x = np.arange(len(names))

    ax.bar(
        x,
        medians,
        color=[scenario_colors[s] for s in names],
        alpha=0.85,
        edgecolor="black",
        linewidth=1.0,
    )
    ax.errorbar(
        x, medians, yerr=[lower, upper], fmt="none", color="black", capsize=7, linewidth=1.5
    )
    for i, name in enumerate(names):
        r = scenario_results[name]
        ax.annotate(
            f"{r['bias_median']:+.1f} pp",
            xy=(i, r["bias_high"]),
            xytext=(0, 6),
            textcoords="offset points",
            ha="center",
            fontsize=9,
            fontweight="bold",
        )
    ax.axhline(0, color="black", linewidth=0.8)
    ax.set_xticks(x)
    ax.set_xticklabels(names, fontsize=9)
    ax.set_xlabel("Delisting outcome scenario")
    ax.set_ylabel("Survivorship bias (percentage points)")
    ax.set_title("Bias by scenario, with Monte Carlo band")


fig, axes = plt.subplots(1, 2, figsize=(14, 5), constrained_layout=True)
plot_paths(axes[0])
plot_bias(axes[1])
fig.suptitle(
    "Survivors-only and full-universe portfolios, and the gap between them",
    fontsize=13,
    fontweight="bold",
)
show_with_alt(
    fig,
    "Two panels. The left plots equal-weight portfolio value from a hundred dollars over "
    "four years: a thick line for survivors only and three thinner dashed and dotted lines "
    "for the full universe under each scenario, all rising together, with the survivors "
    "line finishing above the others and the region between it and the empirical scenario "
    "shaded. The right plots the bias for each of the three scenarios as a bar with a "
    "whisker for the Monte Carlo band; all three bars stand above the zero line, the "
    "stress scenario tallest.",
)

# %% tags=[]
# Persist the figure artifact consumed by the book's figure script (Hard Rule 15).
artifacts_dir = get_chapter_dir(2) / "output" / "book_figure_artifacts"
artifacts_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)

payload = {
    "biased_dates": list(sessions),
    "biased_values": biased_path.tolist(),
    "biased_return": float(biased_return),
    "scenarios": {
        name: {
            "portfolio_timestamps": list(sessions),
            "portfolio_values": r["path"].tolist(),
            "bias_median": r["bias_median"],
            "bias_p10": r["bias_p10"],
            "bias_p90": r["bias_p90"],
        }
        for name, r in scenario_results.items()
    },
    "metadata": {
        "n_sims": int(N_SIMS),
        "start_year": int(window_start.year),
        "end_year": int(window_end.year),
        "n_stocks_at_start": int(len(universe)),
        "n_delisted": int(n_leavers),
        "delisted_pct": float(n_leavers / len(universe) * 100),
        "seed": int(SEED),
        "untrusted_returns_dropped": int(n_suspect),
        "phantom_sessions_dropped": int(phantom.height),
    },
}
with open(artifacts_dir / "figure_2_2_survivorship_bias.pkl", "wb") as f:
    pickle.dump(payload, f)
print(
    f"Persisted figure_2_2_survivorship_bias.pkl ({len(sessions)} sessions, {len(payload['scenarios'])} scenarios)"
)

# %% [markdown] tags=[]
# ## 8. What happened to the symbols that left?
#
# The scenarios in §4 model what holders received *after* the last quote. This section looks at
# the part the panel does observe: how the leavers performed *while* they were still quoted.

# %% tags=[]
# A symbol whose returns were all untrusted has an uninterpretable first/last price ratio.
suspect_symbols = returns.filter(pl.col("suspect"))["symbol"].unique().to_list()

leaver_stats = (
    panel.filter(pl.col("symbol").is_in(leaver_symbols))
    .sort(["symbol", "timestamp"])
    .group_by("symbol")
    .agg(
        [
            pl.col("adj_close").first().alias("first_price"),
            pl.col("adj_close").last().alias("last_price"),
            pl.len().alias("sessions"),
        ]
    )
    .with_columns(((pl.col("last_price") / pl.col("first_price") - 1) * 100).alias("total_return"))
    .filter(~pl.col("symbol").is_in(suspect_symbols))
)

survivor_stats = (
    panel.filter(pl.col("symbol").is_in(survivors["symbol"].to_list()))
    .sort(["symbol", "timestamp"])
    .group_by("symbol")
    .agg(
        [
            pl.col("adj_close").first().alias("first_price"),
            pl.col("adj_close").last().alias("last_price"),
        ]
    )
    .with_columns(((pl.col("last_price") / pl.col("first_price") - 1) * 100).alias("total_return"))
    .filter(~pl.col("symbol").is_in(suspect_symbols))
)

print(
    f"Leavers   (n={leaver_stats.height}): mean {leaver_stats['total_return'].mean():+.1f}%, "
    f"median {leaver_stats['total_return'].median():+.1f}%, "
    f"negative {leaver_stats.filter(pl.col('total_return') < 0).height / leaver_stats.height:.0%}"
)
print(
    f"Survivors (n={survivor_stats.height}): mean {survivor_stats['total_return'].mean():+.1f}%, "
    f"median {survivor_stats['total_return'].median():+.1f}%, "
    f"negative {survivor_stats.filter(pl.col('total_return') < 0).height / survivor_stats.height:.0%}"
)

# %% tags=[]
# The two groups differ in size by 3x, so plot the share of each group per bin, not counts.
bins = dict(start=-100, end=300, size=20)

fig = go.Figure()
for stats, label, color in [
    (leaver_stats, "Left the panel", PALETTE["survivors"]),
    (survivor_stats, "Survived", PALETTE["universe"]),
]:
    fig.add_trace(
        go.Histogram(
            x=stats["total_return"].to_list(),
            xbins=bins,
            histnorm="percent",
            name=f"{label} (n={stats.height:,}, median {stats['total_return'].median():+.0f}%)",
            marker_color=color,
            opacity=0.65,
        )
    )
    # Median in the legend, not as an annotation — the two medians are 17pp apart and collide.
    fig.add_vline(x=stats["total_return"].median(), line_dash="dash", line_color=color)
fig.add_vline(x=0, line_color=PALETTE["rule"], line_width=1)
fig.update_layout(
    title="Total return while quoted, leavers against survivors",
    xaxis_title="Total return (%), binned",
    yaxis_title="Share of group (%)",
    xaxis=dict(range=[-100, 300]),
    barmode="overlay",
    height=440,
)
show_plotly_with_alt(
    fig,
    "Two overlapping histograms of total return while quoted, one for symbols that left "
    "the panel and one for those still quoted at the end, each as a share of its own "
    "group. Both are right-skewed with a long tail of large gains. The leavers carry more "
    "of their mass below zero and their dashed median line sits to the left of the "
    "survivors. A solid vertical line marks zero return.",
)

# %% [markdown] tags=[]
# Leavers hold their shorter window and, over it, underperform the survivors. That is the
# mechanism behind the positive bias in §6: dropping them from the universe removes the weaker
# half of the distribution. The terminal-return scenarios then adjust the estimate at the
# margin — they do not create it.

# %% [markdown] tags=[]
# ## 9. Detecting bias in your own data
#
# Two cheap tests. The first catches a universe filtered to today's constituents; the second
# catches the pattern this panel shows, where exits are recorded but only for part of the history.


# %% tags=[]
def check_survivorship_bias(data: pl.DataFrame, symbol_col: str, date_col: str) -> dict:
    """Flag the two signatures of a survivorship-filtered universe."""
    lifespans = data.group_by(symbol_col).agg(
        [pl.col(date_col).min().alias("first_date"), pl.col(date_col).max().alias("last_date")]
    )

    # Signature 1: nearly every symbol ends on the same date — nothing ever left.
    end_dates = lifespans["last_date"].n_unique()
    all_same_end = end_dates < 10

    # Signature 2: a delisting rate too low to be a real universe.
    latest_date = lifespans["last_date"].max()
    early_ends = lifespans.filter(pl.col("last_date") < latest_date).height
    delisting_rate = early_ends / lifespans.height

    # Signature 3: exits recorded over only part of the panel's span.
    exit_years = lifespans.filter(pl.col("last_date") < latest_date)["last_date"].dt.year()
    span_years = latest_date.year - lifespans["first_date"].min().year + 1
    exit_span_years = (exit_years.max() - exit_years.min() + 1) if len(exit_years) else 0

    return {
        "total_symbols": lifespans.height,
        "unique_end_dates": end_dates,
        "all_same_end_date": all_same_end,
        "early_ending_symbols": early_ends,
        "delisting_rate": delisting_rate,
        "panel_span_years": span_years,
        "exit_span_years": exit_span_years,
        "exits_cover_full_span": exit_span_years >= 0.8 * span_years,
        "likely_biased": all_same_end
        or delisting_rate < 0.05
        or exit_span_years < 0.8 * span_years,
    }


bias_check = check_survivorship_bias(wiki, "symbol", "timestamp")
bias_check

# %% [markdown] tags=[]
# The panel passes the first two tests, on the delisting rate and on the number of distinct
# exit dates, and fails the third. A delisting rate on its own is not evidence of a
# survivorship-aware panel, because a panel that recorded exits for only the last few years
# of its history produces the same rate. **Ask when the delistings happened.**

# %% [markdown] tags=[]
# ## 10. Universe completeness
#
# Survivorship asks whether exits are recorded. Completeness asks the mirror question: are
# **entries** recorded? A panel can carry every delisting and still miss every IPO.


# %% tags=[]
def check_universe_completeness(
    data: pl.DataFrame,
    symbol_col: str,
    date_col: str,
    expected_market_size: int = 4500,
    expected_ipo_rate: tuple[int, int] = (100, 400),
) -> dict:
    """Annual entry/exit flows plus coverage warnings."""
    lifespans = (
        data.group_by(symbol_col)
        .agg(
            [pl.col(date_col).min().alias("first_date"), pl.col(date_col).max().alias("last_date")]
        )
        .with_columns(
            [
                pl.col("first_date").dt.year().alias("first_year"),
                pl.col("last_date").dt.year().alias("last_year"),
            ]
        )
    )
    min_year, max_year = lifespans["first_year"].min(), lifespans["last_year"].max()

    new_by_year = (
        lifespans.group_by("first_year")
        .agg(pl.len().alias("new_listings"))
        .rename({"first_year": "year"})
    )
    exits_by_year = (
        lifespans.filter(pl.col("last_year") < max_year)
        .group_by("last_year")
        .agg(pl.len().alias("delistings"))
        .rename({"last_year": "year"})
    )
    annual_flows = (
        pl.DataFrame({"year": list(range(min_year, max_year + 1))})
        .join(new_by_year, on="year", how="left")
        .join(exits_by_year, on="year", how="left")
        .with_columns(
            [
                pl.col("new_listings").fill_null(0).cast(pl.Int64),
                pl.col("delistings").fill_null(0).cast(pl.Int64),
            ]
        )
        .with_columns((pl.col("new_listings") - pl.col("delistings")).alias("net_change"))
        .sort("year")
    )

    total_symbols = lifespans.height
    middle = annual_flows.filter((pl.col("year") > min_year) & (pl.col("year") < max_year))
    recent_new = annual_flows.filter(pl.col("year") >= max_year - 2)["new_listings"].sum()
    years_with_zero_new = annual_flows.filter(pl.col("new_listings") == 0).height
    coverage_ratio = total_symbols / expected_market_size

    warnings = []
    if recent_new < 50:
        warnings.append(f"Coverage frozen: only {recent_new} new listings in the final 3 years")
    if len(middle) and middle["new_listings"].mean() < expected_ipo_rate[0]:
        warnings.append(
            f"Avg new listings ({middle['new_listings'].mean():.0f}/yr) below the expected "
            f"{expected_ipo_rate[0]}-{expected_ipo_rate[1]} range"
        )
    if coverage_ratio < 0.9:
        warnings.append(
            f"Coverage ratio {coverage_ratio:.0%} — the panel is a subset of the market"
        )

    return {
        "annual_flows": annual_flows,
        "total_symbols": total_symbols,
        "expected_market_size": expected_market_size,
        "coverage_ratio": coverage_ratio,
        "years_with_zero_new": years_with_zero_new,
        "avg_new_listings": middle["new_listings"].mean() if len(middle) else 0,
        "avg_delistings": middle["delistings"].mean() if len(middle) else 0,
        "warnings": warnings,
    }


# %% [markdown] tags=[]
# For context, the US listed-company count peaked near 8,090 in 1996 (World Bank) and has run
# 4,000–5,000 since 2010. A panel of ~3,200 symbols is a subset, not the market.

# %% tags=[]
completeness = check_universe_completeness(wiki, symbol_col="symbol", date_col="timestamp")

print(
    f"{completeness['total_symbols']:,} symbols vs ~{completeness['expected_market_size']:,} expected "
    f"({completeness['coverage_ratio']:.1%} coverage)"
)
print(
    f"Middle-of-panel flows: {completeness['avg_new_listings']:.0f} new listings/yr, "
    f"{completeness['avg_delistings']:.0f} delistings/yr"
)
for w in completeness["warnings"]:
    print(f"  WARNING: {w}")

# %% [markdown] tags=[]
# ### Interpretation
#
# Both flows fail, and they fail at opposite ends of the panel:
#
# 1. **Exits are missing before ~2014** — the panel was backfilled from a snapshot of
#    then-living symbols (§1).
# 2. **Entries dry up after ~2014** — contributors stopped adding IPOs, and the feed stopped
#    entirely in March 2018.
# 3. **The panel is a subset** — ~3,200 symbols against a 4,000–5,000 name market, skewed
#    toward liquid names.
#
# Bias-free is not the same as complete, and this panel is neither over its full span. It *is*
# usable for survivorship work over 2014–2018, which is what §6 measures. For anything longer,
# use a panel with an explicit universe definition and delisting returns: CRSP, Compustat, or a
# commercial vendor.

# %% [markdown] tags=[]
# ## Key takeaways
#
# **What it does.** Measures how much an equal-weight portfolio of survivors overstates the
# same portfolio built on the full starting universe, over the only window in which the US
# equities panel records exits.
#
# **What it finds.**
#
# 1. **The panel records exits only from its final few years.** Every exit in a panel that
#    starts in the 1960s falls after 2014, as the chart in §1 shows. Firms exited before then;
#    the collection process did not capture it. Absence of evidence, not evidence of absence,
#    and no way to recover what is missing.
# 2. **The adjusted prices carry unadjusted corporate actions.** Reverse splits and
#    post-bankruptcy reorganisations on reused tickers print single-session steps of two
#    orders of magnitude that are not returns at all, and the `split_ratio` column records
#    nothing for any of them. They are a small fraction of one percent of the rows; §3 lists
#    them and counts them.
# 3. **Those rows decide the sign of the answer.** Uncorrected, the survivors-only portfolio
#    appears to *underperform* the full universe. Repaired, it overstates — the direction the
#    literature reports. The survivorship check cannot run ahead of the corporate-action check.
# 4. **The terminal-return model is the least consequential part of the estimate.** Setting
#    every terminal return to zero moves the empirical-scenario bias by well under a point. The
#    bias comes from the *observed* returns of the symbols that left, not from what they paid
#    out afterwards. Assumption risk (which scenario) exceeds sampling risk (the Monte Carlo
#    band) by an order of magnitude.
# 5. **Bias-free is not complete.** The panel adds almost no new listings after 2014, and §10
#    measures how much of the market it holds. A dataset can record every delisting and still
#    miss every IPO.
#
# **What it means.** Survivorship bias is not a fact you look up; it is an estimate you build,
# and it inherits every defect of the data underneath it. The direction of the bias depends on
# the delisting mix, its magnitude on the leavers' observed returns, and its *sign*, here, on
# whether anyone checked the corporate actions first. Applying a zero terminal value to
# delisted symbols is not bias-free; it is merely unrealistic.
#
# **Next**: `16_provider_comparison` moves from one panel's internal bias to stitching several
# providers together, where universe and coverage definitions diverge. **Book reference**: §2.3.

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