[R] Question concerning "pastecs" package

[Philippe Grosjean]

Hello,

I already answered privately to your question. No, there is no 
translation of pastecs.pdf. The English documentation is accessible, as 
usual, by:

?turnpoints

Regarding your specific question, 'info' is the quantity of information 
I associated with the turning points:

I = -log2 P(t)

where P is the probability to observe a turning point at time t under 
the null hypothesis that the time series is purely random, and thus, the 
distribution of turning points follows a normal distribution with:

E(p) = 2/3*(n-2)
var(p) = (16*n - 29)/90

with p, the number of observed turning points and n the number of 
observations. Ibanez (1982, in French, sorry... not my fault!) 
demonstrated that P(t) is:

P(t) = 2*(1/n(t-1)! * (n-1)!)

As you can easily imagine, from this point on, it is straightforward to 
construct a test to determine if the series is random (regarding the 
distribution of the turning points), more or less monotonic (more or 
less turning points than expected), See also the ref cited in the online 
help (Kendall 1976).

References:
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Ibanez, F., 1982. Sur une nouvelle application de la théorie de 
l'information à la description des séries chronologiques planctoniques. 
J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol., 4:619-632

Kendall, M.G., 1976. Time-series, 2nd ed. Charles Griffin & Co, London

Best,

Philippe Grosjean

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Rainer M. Krug wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I just installed the pastecs package and I am wondering: is there an 
> english (or german) translation of the file pastecs.pdf? If not, is 
> there an explanation somewhere of the object of type 'turnpoints' as a 
> result of turnpoints(), especially the "info" field?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rainer
>