[R] Variance-covariance matrix

Tsjerk Wassenaar tsjerkw at gmail.com
Sun May 10 22:31:14 CEST 2015


Hi Giorgio,

This is for a multivariate time series. x1 is variable 1 of the observation
vector x, x2, variable 2, etc. If you need x(i) and x(i+1), etc, then
you're looking for the autocovariance/autocorrelation matrix, which is a
quite different thing (and David showed the way). You can easily see that
you don't have N-1 degrees of freedom per entry, because you have fewer
'observations' for larger lag times.

Cheers,

Tsjerk



On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 10:25 PM, Giorgio Garziano <
giorgio.garziano at ericsson.com> wrote:

>  Hi Tsjerk,
>
>
>
> Yes, seriously.
>
>
>
> Time series:
>
>
>
> X = [x1, x2, x3, ....,xn]
>
>
>
> The variance-covariance matrix is V matrix:
>
>
>
> *            V*    =
>
> Σ *x*12 / (N-1)
>
> Σ *x*1 *x*2 / (N-1)
>
> . . .
>
> Σ *x*1 xn / (N-1)
>
> Σ *x*2 *x*1 / (N-1)
>
> Σ *x*22 / (N-1)
>
> . . .
>
> Σ *x*2 *x*n / (N-1)
>
> . . .
>
> . . .
>
> . . .
>
> . . .
>
> Σ *x*n *x*1 / (N-1)
>
> Σ *x*n *x*2 / (N-1)
>
> . . .
>
> Σ *x*n2 / (N-1)
>
>
>
>
>
> Reference: “Time series and its applications – with R examples”,
> Springer,
>
>      $7.8 “Principal Components” pag. 468, 469
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> Giorgio
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Tsjerk Wassenaar [mailto:tsjerkw at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* domenica 10 maggio 2015 22:11
>
> *To:* Giorgio Garziano
> *Cc:* r-help at r-project.org
> *Subject:* Re: [R] Variance-covariance matrix
>
>
>
> Hi Giorgio,
>
>
>
> For a univariate time series? Seriously?
>
>
>
> data <- rnorm(10,2,1)
>
> as.matrix(var(data))
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> Tsjerk
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 9:54 PM, Giorgio Garziano <
> giorgio.garziano at ericsson.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Actually as variance-covariance matrix I mean:
>
>         http://stattrek.com/matrix-algebra/covariance-matrix.aspx
>
> that I compute by:
>
>         data <- rnorm(10,2,1)
>         n <- length(data)
>         data.center <- scale(data, center=TRUE, scale=FALSE)
>         var.cov.mat <- (1/(n-1)) * data.center %*% t(data.center)
>
> --
> Giorgio Garziano
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Winsemius [mailto:dwinsemius at comcast.net]
> Sent: domenica 10 maggio 2015 21:27
> To: Giorgio Garziano
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Variance-covariance matrix
>
>
> On May 10, 2015, at 4:27 AM, Giorgio Garziano wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am looking for a R package providing with variance-covariance matrix
> computation of univariate time series.
> >
> > Please, any suggestions ?
>
> If you mean the auto-correlation function, then the stats package (loaded
> by default at startup) has facilities:
>
> ?acf
> # also same help page describes partial auto-correlation function
> #Auto- and Cross- Covariance and -Correlation Function Estimation
>
> --
>
> David Winsemius
> Alameda, CA, USA
>
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