LECTURES IN TIME SERIES AND FILTERING

 

0. THE METHODS OF TIME-SERIES ANALYSIS

 

1. THE ALGEBRA FOR TIME-SERIES ANALYSIS

Rational Functions and the z-transform

The Expansion of a Rational Function

Representations via Toeplitz Matrices

Representations via Circulant Matrices

The Spectral Factorisation of a Circulant Matrix

Linear and Circular Convolutions

 

2. PROPERTIES OF TRANSFER FUNCTIONS

The Impulse Response function

Stability of a Transfer Function

Response to a Sinusoidal Input

Spectral Representation of a Stationary Stochastic Process

The Frequency Response

 

3. THE DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORM

Complex Numbers

Trigonometrical Identities

Trigonometrical Orthogonality Conditions

The Fourier Decomposition of a Time Series

The Periodogram and the Spectral Analysis of Variance

The Periodogram and the Empirical Autocovariances

Complex Exponential Forms

 

4. ALTERNATIVE REPRESENTATIONS OF THE DFT

The Roots of Unity

Circulant Matrices and the Discrete Fourier Transform

The Matrix Discrete Fourier Transform

Circular Autocovariances

 

5. THE CLASSES OF FOURIER TRANSFORMS

The Discrete Fourier Transform

The Classical Fourier Series

The Discrete-Time Fourier Transform

The Fourier Integral Transform

Sampling and Sinc Function Interpolation

 

6. STATIONARY LINEAR STOCHASTIC MODELS

Autoregressive Moving-average Processes

Autocovariances of a Moving-Average Process

Autocovariance Generating Function

The Spectral Density Function

The White-Noise Spectrum

 

7. WIENER-KOLMOGOROV FILTER THEORY

The Classical Wiener--Kolmogorov Theory

The Butterworth Filter

The Hordick--Prescott (Leser) Filter

 

8. FILTERING SHORT NONSTSATIONARY SEQUENCES

Wiener-Kolmogorov Filtering of Short Stationary Sequences

Filtering via Fourier Methods

Dealing with Trended Data

Recovering the Trend Component

Wiener--Kolmogorov Estimates from Trended Data

 

IDEOLOG: A PROGRAM FOR FILTERING ECONOMETRIC DATA