Hi R users,
where can I find the equations used by acf function to calculate
autocorrelation? I think I misunderstand acf. Doesn't acf use following
equation to calculate autocorrelation?
[image: R(\tau) = \frac{\operatorname{E}[(X_t - \mu)(X_{t+\tau} -
\mu)]}{\sigma^2}\, ,]
If it does, then the autocorrelation of a sine function should give a
cosine; however, the following code gives a cosine-shape function with its
magnitude decreasing along the lag.
x = c(1:500)
x = x/10
x = sin(x)
acf(x, type='correlation', lag.max=length(x)-1)
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Best,
Zhenjiang
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