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Steve.
Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 14/09/2009 6:40 AM, Steve Jones wrote:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I've been producing autocorrelation functions of time series using the
>> acf function, and have found a series or two for which correlations of >
>> 1 are given, which I think shouldn't happen.
>>
>> Attached is the time series I'm using, and below is the R code (version
>> 2.9.1) that I'm entering:
>>
>> series <- read.csv("series.csv")
>> corr <- acf(series, lag.max=90, na.action=na.pass, plot=T)
>>
>> The first few values of corr are below:
>>
>> 0 1.000
>> 1 1.258
>> 2 1.192
>> 3 1.266
>> 4 0.864
>> 5 0.637
>>
>> The entries of concern are 1-3 - surely these results are invalid?
>>
>> I'd be grateful if you could shed any light on this for me.
>>
>
> Your data file didn't show up. (Some attachments are stripped; it's
> better to include data inline.)
>
> Duncan Murdoch
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