Re: [R] Time Series Decomposition On Zoo Objects: Errors

2014-04-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 3 Apr 2014, Roy Mendelssohn wrote: The state-space approach has the advantage in the appropriate situations that you can model the trends and seasonals and cycles in a way that doesn't assume stationarity and provides a lot of flexibility. To me a lot of it depends on if the nature of th

Re: [R] Time Series Decomposition On Zoo Objects: Errors

2014-04-03 Thread Roy Mendelssohn
The state-space approach has the advantage in the appropriate situations that you can model the trends and seasonals and cycles in a way that doesn't assume stationarity and provides a lot of flexibility. To me a lot of it depends on if the nature of the irregularity is an inherent property of

Re: [R] Time Series Decomposition On Zoo Objects: Errors

2014-04-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 3 Apr 2014, Roy Mendelssohn wrote: How irregular is irregular. kalman filter based methods, such as those in KFAS and DLM, can handle missing data, and often "irregular" data can be thought of as regular data with missing values, A lot depends on how irregular and how big the gaps, to th

Re: [R] Time Series Decomposition On Zoo Objects: Errors

2014-04-03 Thread Roy Mendelssohn
HI Rich: How irregular is irregular. kalman filter based methods, such as those in KFAS and DLM, can handle missing data, and often "irregular" data can be thought of as regular data with missing values, A lot depends on how irregular and how big the gaps, to the point where the analysis can

Re: [R] Time Series Decomposition On Zoo Objects: Errors

2014-04-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 3 Apr 2014, arun wrote: Not sure if this helps you. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12623027/how-to-analyse-irregular-time-series-in-r A.K., Yes, it does. I've read all the zoo docs I can find and have been searching for more information on irregular time series data. Environment

[R] Time Series Decomposition On Zoo Objects: Errors

2014-04-03 Thread Rich Shepard
I have irregular time series as zoo objects; one example: structure(c(6, 5, 14, 9, 8, 9, 8, 5, 5, 5, 3, 3, 4, 3, 9, 6.94, 7.44, 3.09, 0.84, 5.35, 4.76, 4.21, 1.58, 2.6, 3.41, 9.59, 7.1, 5, 5, 5, 3, 1.5, 2.4, 3.9, 5.8, 2.3, 3.6, 4.1, 15.4, 7.8, 4.2, 5.8, 3, 4.5, 8.1, 9.6, 9.3, 7.9, 3.8, 3.2,