A linear transformation and its properties with special applications in time series filtering
A linear transformation and its properties with special applications in time series filtering
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线性变换及其性质在时间序列滤波中的特殊应用
DOI:
10.1016/s0024-3795(03)00397-5
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发表时间:
2004
影响因子:
1.1
通讯作者:
A. Luati
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作者:
E. Dagum;A. Luati
In time series analysis, it is often assumed that the data generating process can be decomposed into various unobservable components representing the trend, cyclical fluctuations, seasonal effects and irregulars. These latent variables are estimated by applying linear filters or systems of weights to the observations, in a moving manner. The filters can be arranged in matrix form such that, applied to the vector of observations, produce the corresponding estimated values. If the linear filters are symmetric, say of length 2m+ 1, with m positive integer, and applied to a series of length N> 2m+ 1, then it is evident that the components cannot be estimated for the first and last m observations. How-ever, since for policy and decision making is of great importance to have estimates of the latent variables up to and including the most recent observations, asymmetric filters must be applied to the beginning and ending m values of the series. The entire predictor matrix is here shown to be invariant with respect to a linear transformation called t and which results from pre-and postmultiplication of a given matrix by two permutation matrices of suitable dimensions. In particular, we show that the predictor matrix is centrosymmetric and that it is forned by a submatrix of symmetric weights (to be applied to central observations) which is t-invariant or, equivalently, rectangular centrosymmetric, and by submatrices of asymmetric weights (to be applied to initial and final observations) which are the t-transform of each other.We would like to remark that the t-transformation has been improperly (see, for example, Farebrother,[7]) referred to either as a “reflection'by Weaver [23] or as a “rotation'by Krafft and Schaever [11]. In this paper, we define and study the properties of the t-transformation and highlight its role in time series filtering.