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arima {stats}

ARIMA Modelling of Time Series
Package: 
stats
Version: 
R 2.15.3

Description

Fit an ARIMA model to a univariate time series.

Usage

arima(x, order = c(0, 0, 0),
      seasonal = list(order = c(0, 0, 0), period = NA),
      xreg = NULL, include.mean = TRUE,
      transform.pars = TRUE,
      fixed = NULL, init = NULL,
      method = c("CSS-ML", "ML", "CSS"),
      n.cond, optim.method = "BFGS",
      optim.control = list(), kappa = 1e6)

Arguments

x
a univariate time series
order
A specification of the non-seasonal part of the ARIMA model: the three components (p, d, q) are the AR order, the degree of differencing, and the MA order.
seasonal
A specification of the seasonal part of the ARIMA model, plus the period (which defaults to frequency(x)). This should be a list with components order and period, but a specification of just a numeric vector of length 3 will be turned into a suitable list with the specification as the order.
xreg
Optionally, a vector or matrix of external regressors, which must have the same number of rows as x.
include.mean
Should the ARMA model include a mean/intercept term? The default is TRUE for undifferenced series, and it is ignored for ARIMA models with differencing.
transform.pars
Logical. If true, the AR parameters are transformed to ensure that they remain in the region of stationarity. Not used for method = "CSS".
fixed
optional numeric vector of the same length as the total number of parameters. If supplied, only NA entries in fixed will be varied. transform.pars = TRUE will be overridden (with a warning) if any AR parameters are fixed. It may be wise to set transform.pars = FALSE when fixing MA parameters, especially near non-invertibility.
init
optional numeric vector of initial parameter values. Missing values will be filled in, by zeroes except for regression coefficients. Values already specified in fixed will be ignored.
method
Fitting method: maximum likelihood or minimize conditional sum-of-squares. The default (unless there are missing values) is to use conditional-sum-of-squares to find starting values, then maximum likelihood.
n.cond
Only used if fitting by conditional-sum-of-squares: the number of initial observations to ignore. It will be ignored if less than the maximum lag of an AR term.
optim.method
The value passed as the method argument to optim.
optim.control
List of control parameters for optim.
kappa
the prior variance (as a multiple of the innovations variance) for the past observations in a differenced model. Do not reduce this.

Details

Different definitions of ARMA models have different signs for the AR and/or MA coefficients. The definition used here has

X[t] = a[1]X[t-1] + ... + a[p]X[t-p] + e[t] + b[1]e[t-1] + ... + b[q]e[t-q]

and so the MA coefficients differ in sign from those of S-PLUS. Further, if include.mean is true (the default for an ARMA model), this formula applies to X - m rather than X. For ARIMA models with differencing, the differenced series follows a zero-mean ARMA model. If am xreg term is included, a linear regression (with a constant term if include.mean is true and there is no differencing) is fitted with an ARMA model for the error term.

The variance matrix of the estimates is found from the Hessian of the log-likelihood, and so may only be a rough guide.

Optimization is done by optim. It will work best if the columns in xreg are roughly scaled to zero mean and unit variance, but does attempt to estimate suitable scalings.

Values

A list of class "Arima" with components:

coef
a vector of AR, MA and regression coefficients, which can be extracted by the coef method.
sigma2
the MLE of the innovations variance.
var.coef
the estimated variance matrix of the coefficients coef, which can be extracted by the vcov method.
loglik
the maximized log-likelihood (of the differenced data), or the approximation to it used.
arma
A compact form of the specification, as a vector giving the number of AR, MA, seasonal AR and seasonal MA coefficients, plus the period and the number of non-seasonal and seasonal differences.
aic
the AIC value corresponding to the log-likelihood. Only valid for method = "ML" fits.
residuals
the fitted innovations.
call
the matched call.
series
the name of the series x.
code
the convergence value returned by optim.
n.cond
the number of initial observations not used in the fitting.
model
A list representing the Kalman Filter used in the fitting. See KalmanLike.

Fitting methods

The exact likelihood is computed via a state-space representation of the ARIMA process, and the innovations and their variance found by a Kalman filter. The initialization of the differenced ARMA process uses stationarity and is based on Gardner et al. (1980). For a differenced process the non-stationary components are given a diffuse prior (controlled by kappa). Observations which are still controlled by the diffuse prior (determined by having a Kalman gain of at least 1e4) are excluded from the likelihood calculations. (This gives comparable results to arima0 in the absence of missing values, when the observations excluded are precisely those dropped by the differencing.)

Missing values are allowed, and are handled exactly in method "ML".

If transform.pars is true, the optimization is done using an alternative parametrization which is a variation on that suggested by Jones (1980) and ensures that the model is stationary. For an AR(p) model the parametrization is via the inverse tanh of the partial autocorrelations: the same procedure is applied (separately) to the AR and seasonal AR terms. The MA terms are not constrained to be invertible during optimization, but they will be converted to invertible form after optimization if transform.pars is true.

Conditional sum-of-squares is provided mainly for expositional purposes. This computes the sum of squares of the fitted innovations from observation n.cond on, (where n.cond is at least the maximum lag of an AR term), treating all earlier innovations to be zero. Argument n.cond can be used to allow comparability between different fits. The ‘part log-likelihood’ is the first term, half the log of the estimated mean square. Missing values are allowed, but will cause many of the innovations to be missing.

When regressors are specified, they are orthogonalized prior to fitting unless any of the coefficients is fixed. It can be helpful to roughly scale the regressors to zero mean and unit variance.

References

Brockwell, P. J. and Davis, R. A. (1996) Introduction to Time Series and Forecasting. Springer, New York. Sections 3.3 and 8.3.

Durbin, J. and Koopman, S. J. (2001) Time Series Analysis by State Space Methods. Oxford University Press.

Gardner, G, Harvey, A. C. and Phillips, G. D. A. (1980) Algorithm AS154. An algorithm for exact maximum likelihood estimation of autoregressive-moving average models by means of Kalman filtering. Applied Statistics 29, 311--322.

Harvey, A. C. (1993) Time Series Models, 2nd Edition, Harvester Wheatsheaf, sections 3.3 and 4.4.

Jones, R. H. (1980) Maximum likelihood fitting of ARMA models to time series with missing observations. Technometrics 22 389--395.

Ripley, B. D. (2002) Time series in R 1.5.0. R News, 2/2, 2--7. http://www.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2002-2.pdf

Note

The results are likely to be different from S-PLUS's arima.mle, which computes a conditional likelihood and does not include a mean in the model. Further, the convention used by arima.mle reverses the signs of the MA coefficients.

arima is very similar to arima0 for ARMA models or for differenced models without missing values, but handles differenced models with missing values exactly. It is somewhat slower than arima0, particularly for seasonally differenced models.

See Also

predict.Arima, arima.sim for simulating from an ARIMA model, tsdiag, arima0, ar

Examples

arima(lh, order = c(1,0,0))
arima(lh, order = c(3,0,0))
arima(lh, order = c(1,0,1))
 
arima(lh, order = c(3,0,0), method = "CSS")
 
arima(USAccDeaths, order = c(0,1,1), seasonal = list(order=c(0,1,1)))
arima(USAccDeaths, order = c(0,1,1), seasonal = list(order=c(0,1,1)),
      method = "CSS") # drops first 13 observations.
# for a model with as few years as this, we want full ML
 
arima(LakeHuron, order = c(2,0,0), xreg = time(LakeHuron)-1920)
 
## presidents contains NAs
## graphs in example(acf) suggest order 1 or 3
require(graphics)
(fit1 <- arima(presidents, c(1, 0, 0)))
tsdiag(fit1)
(fit3 <- arima(presidents, c(3, 0, 0)))  # smaller AIC
tsdiag(fit3)

Documentation reproduced from R 2.15.3. License: GPL-2.