Prof Brian D Ripley (ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk)
Sat, 4 Sep 1999 08:23:45 +0100 (BST)
On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Michael HART wrote:
> Thanks for all who have helped me with my original queries, below.
>
> I have now managed to import some data and use the ar modeling. Now I have
> some more specific questions about this package if anyone knows the answers
> to I would appreciate some help in clearing up a few issues.
>
> I used the routine ar.yw (amongst others) in the library ts. This routine
> automagically chose the ar model order for me. I was wondering what method
> it uses to do this?
You could try reading the help page:
aic: Logical flag. If `TRUE' then the Akaike Informa-
tion Criterion is used to choose the order of the
autoregressive model. If `FALSE', the model of
order `order.max' is fitted.
...
Order selection is done by AIC if `aic' is true. This
And AIC is described in the first, second and fourth reference, at least.
> The package allows the user to enter a maximum model order from which it
> chooses the model order it prefers (below this value). However I would like
> to force it to use a particular ar model order of my choice as I know how
> many theoretical processes are in the data (which is more that the order
> being chosen).
ar(x, aic=F, order=3), for example.
> Can someone with experience with this package or with ar modelling tell me
> how to make it force a particular model order.
Advice: do read the help pages on the functions you use, especially before
asking here.
Library ts is close to but not the same as the functions in S-PLUS. These
and the backround are described in Venables & Ripley (1999) `Modern Applied
Statistics with S-PLUS' and how to do its examples in R is in the R version
of the script in the VR61* package on CRAN.
> Also the libraries ts and tseries each use the same name for their base data
> types but they are incompatible with each other.
We know they overlap, but I was not aware of incompatibility of the base
type (ts) which is defined in base R, not in any package. Package tseries
will be updated shortly: its author contributed some of the functionality
in package ts.
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