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Dear R list As suggested by Prof Brian Ripley, I have tried to read acf literature. The main problem is I am not the statistician and hence have some problem in understanding the concepts immediately. I came across one literature (http://www.stat.nus.edu.sg/~staxyc/REG32.pdf) on auto-correlation giving the methodology. As per that literature, the auto-correlation is arrived at as per following.

Hi R, I have doubt. >x= c(4,5,6,3,2,4,5) >acf(x,plot=F,lag.max=1) Autocorrelations of series 'x', by lag 0 1 1.000 0.182 But if I actually calculate the autocorrelation at lag1 I get, >cor(x[-1],x[-length(x)]) [1] 0.1921538 Even in excel I get 0.1921538 value. So, I want to know what the 'acf' function is calculating here....

Hi list, I have the following code to compute the acf of a time series acfresid <- acf(residfit), where residfit is the series when I type acfresid at the prompt the follwoing is displayed Autocorrelations of series ?residfit?, by lag 0.0000 0.0833 0.1667 0.2500 0.3333 0.4167 0.5000 0.5833 0.6667 0.7500 0.8333 1.000 -0.015 0.010 0.099 0.048 -0.014 -0.039 -0.019 0.040 0.018

Hi, Im new to R so this question is quite fundamental. Im trying to compare some autocorrelations generated by the acf function to some theoretical correlations. How can I have acces to just the autocorrelations, for computation? This is some of my code: > acf.data<-c(acf(x)) > acf.data This is the R output: $acf , , 1 [,1] [1,] 1.000000000 [2,]

Hi List, I'm trying to calculate the autocorrelation coefficients for a time series using acf at various lags. This is working well, and I can get the coefficients without any trouble. However, I don't seem to be able to obtain the significance of these coefficients from the returned acf object, largely because I don't know where I might find them. It's clear that the acf

Hi R users, where can I find the equations used by acf function to calculate autocorrelation? I think I misunderstand acf. Doesn't acf use following equation to calculate autocorrelation? [image: R(\tau) = \frac{\operatorname{E}[(X_t - \mu)(X_{t+\tau} - \mu)]}{\sigma^2}\, ,] If it does, then the autocorrelation of a sine function should give a cosine; however, the following code gives a

Dear all, given two numeric vectors x and y, the ACF(x) at lag k is cor(x(t),x(t+k)) while the CCF(x,y) at lag k is cor(x(t),y(t-k)). See below for a simple example. > set.seed(1) > x <- rnorm(10) > y <- rnorm(10) > x [1] -0.6264538 0.1836433 -0.8356286 1.5952808 0.3295078 -0.8204684 0.4874291 0.7383247 0.5757814 -0.3053884 > y [1] 1.51178117 0.38984324

I have data as below.Please let me know how the ACF and Pacf used to determine the order od arima model. Is there any rules need to be followed to determine order.Please advise > turkey.price.ts Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 2001 1.58 1.75 1.63 1.45 1.56 2.07 1.81 1.74 1.54 1.45 0.57 1.15 2002 1.50 1.66 1.34 1.67 1.81 1.60 1.70 1.87 1.47 1.59 0.74 0.82

Dear users, I have two continuous variables which are two different measures taken each year from 1975 to 2005. I want to see if the two variables are correlated but need to take into account the fact that they are a time series. I have been following an example from 'The R Book' where you plot the ACF: par(mfrow=c(1,1) acf(cbind(x,y)) and this appeared to work fine, producing four

Hello, I am attending a course in Computational Statistics at ETH and in one of the assignments I am asked to prove that a time series is not autocorrelated using the R function "acf". I tried out the acf function with the given data, according to what I found here: http://landshape.org/enm/options-for-acf-in-r/ this test data does not look IID but rather shows some trends so how can I

Dear all, I have one Model (M3) fitted using the lme package, and I have checked the correlation structure of within-group errors using plot(ACF (M3,maxLag=10),alpha=0.05) But now I am not sure how to interpret this plot for the empirical autocorrelation function. The problem is that I am used to see/interpret diagrams in which all the autocorrelation Lags, except lag-1, are inside the

Dear all, I have an annual time-series of population numbers and I would like to estimate the auto-correlation. Can I use acf() function and judge whether auto-correlation is significant by the plots? The acf array, eg: Autocorrelations of series 'x$log.s.r', by lag 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1.000 0.031 -0.171

When I run the "acf()" function using the "acf(ts.union(mdeaths, fdeaths))" example, the "acf()" function calls the "acf.plot()" function to generate this plot... http://members.cox.net/ddebarr/images/acf_example.png The plot in the lower right-hand corner is labeled "fdeaths & mdeaths", but the negative lags appear to belong to "mdeaths

Dear R list I am trying to understand the auto-correlation concept. Auto-correlation is the self-correlation of random variable X with a certain time lag of say t. The article "http://www.mit.tut.fi/MIT-3010/luentokalvot/lk10-11/MDA_lecture16_11.pdf" (Page no. 9 and 10) gives the methodology as under. Suppose you have a time series observations as say X =

Hi R-sters, Just wondering what I might be doing wrong. I'm trying to fit a multiple linear regression model, and being ever mindful about the possibilities of autocorrelation in the errors (it's a time series), the errors appear to follow an AR1 process (ar(ts(glsfit$residuals)) selected order 1). So, when I go back and try to do the simultaneous regression and error fit with gls,

Hello Michael, see as an online resource: http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/sttimser.html or get hold on a time series analysis textbook, like one of the monographies written by Hamilton; Luetkepohl; Brockwell & Davis; Harvey or Box & Jenkins, to name but a few. In a nutshell, PACF 'eliminates' intermediate autocorrelations compared to ACF, e.g. an AR(1) process will ordinarily

Hi everyone, I'm trying to use the acf() function to calculate the autocorrelation of each column in a matrix. The trouble is that I can only seem to get the function to work if I extract the data in the column into a separate matrix and then apply the acf() function to this column. I have something like this: acf(mat,lag.max=10,na.action=na.pass) ...but I would really like to apply the

I am guessing this is a very simple question, but this is only my second day with R so it is all still a bit imposing. I am trying to run an autocorrelation. I imported a CSV file, which has one column labeled "logistic". I ran the command: ACF(data$logistic,maxLag=10) However, I received the error: Error in UseMethod("ACF") : no applicable method for 'ACF'

Hi list, I've been producing autocorrelation functions of time series using the acf function, and have found a series or two for which correlations of > 1 are given, which I think shouldn't happen. Attached is the time series I'm using, and below is the R code (version 2.9.1) that I'm entering: series <- read.csv("series.csv") corr <- acf(series, lag.max=90,

hi everyone! i want to check the autocorrelation function for a univariate time series (streamflow) in a data frame as below: < DF <- read.table("D:/file path....") < DF year jan feb mar apr ...... dec 1966 0.504 0.406 0.740 0.241 0.429 1967 0.683 0.529 0.780 0.443 0.503 . . . . what i first tried is: acf (DF, plot = TRUE)