Leeds, Mark (IED)
2007-Feb-06 22:49 UTC
[R] formula for test statistics of arima coefficients
I have an object, ARestopt, that is the result of a call to the arima function. I want to calculate test statistics ( null is coeffs are zero ) for each of the estimated coefficients. My coefficents are in a vector called ARestopt$coef and my covariance matrix is ARestopt$var.coef. I thought my formula for calculating them should be ARestopt$coef/(sqrt(diag(ARestopt$var.coef) but then I started thinking about the square root of n in the variance for estimates. do the variances in the covariance matrix already incorporate square root of n or should i be putting a sqrt(n) in also ? I've seen a similar formula in an R book somewhere but I can't recall where. If someone could tell me if above is correct ( disregard the issue of the covariance matrix maybe not being a consistent estimate of the covariance ) or the book or doc where I have seen the formula , I would really appreciate it. -------------------------------------------------------- This is not an offer (or solicitation of an offer) to buy/se...{{dropped}}