[R] Classifying time series by shape over time

[Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen]

Andreas Neumann wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I have hundreds of thousands of univariate time series of the form:
> character "seriesid", vector of Date, vector of integer
> (some exemplary data is at the end of the mail)
> 
> I am trying to find the ones which somehow "have a shape" over time that
> looks like the histogramm of a (skewed) normal distribution:
>>  hist(rnorm(200,10,2))
> The "mean" is not interesting, i.e. it does not matter if the first
> nonzero observation happens in the 2. or the 40. month of observation.
> So all that matters is: They should start sometime, the hits per month
> increase, at some point they decrease and then they more or less
> disappear.
> 
> Short Example (hits at consecutive months (Dates omitted)):
> 1. series: 0 0 0 2 5 8 20 42 30 19 6 1 0 0 0                -> Good
> 2. series: 0 3 8 9 20 6 0 3 25 67 7 1 0 4 60 20 10 0 4      -> Bad
> 
> Series 1 would be an ideal case of what I am looking for.
> 
> Graphical inspection would be easy but is not an option due to the huge
> amount of series.
> 

Does function turnpoints)= in package pastecs help_

Kjetil

> Questions:
> 
> 1. Which (if at all) of the many packages that handle time series is
> appropriate for my problem?
> 
> 2. Which general approach seems to be the most straightforward and best
> supported by R?
> - Is there a way to test the time series directly (preferably)?
> - Or do I need to "type-cast" them as some kind of histogram
>   data and then test against the pdf of e.g. a normal distribution (but
>   how)?
> - Or something totally different?
> 
> 
> Thank you for your time,
> 
>      Andreas Neumann
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Data Examples (id1 is good, id2 is bad):
> 
>> id1
>         dates       hits
> 1  2004-12-01         3
> 2  2005-01-01         4
> 3  2005-02-01        10
> 4  2005-03-01         6
> 5  2005-04-01        35
> 6  2005-05-01        14
> 7  2005-06-01        33
> 8  2005-07-01        13
> 9  2005-08-01         3
> 10 2005-09-01         9
> 11 2005-10-01         8
> 12 2005-11-01         4
> 13 2005-12-01         3
> 
> 
>> id2
>         dates       hits
> 1  2001-01-01         6
> 2  2001-02-01         5
> 3  2001-03-01         5
> 4  2001-04-01         6
> 5  2001-05-01         2
> 6  2001-06-01         5
> 7  2001-07-01         1
> 8  2001-08-01         6
> 9  2001-09-01         4
> 10 2001-10-01        10
> 11 2001-11-01         0
> 12 2001-12-01         3
> 13 2002-01-01         6
> 14 2002-02-01         5
> 15 2002-03-01         1
> 16 2002-04-01         2
> 17 2002-05-01         4
> 18 2002-06-01         4
> 19 2002-07-01         0
> 20 2002-08-01         1
> 21 2002-09-01         0
> 22 2002-10-01         2
> 23 2002-11-01         2
> 24 2002-12-01         2
> 25 2003-01-01         2
> 26 2003-02-01         3
> 27 2003-03-01         7
> 
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