# Serial correlation of detrended time series

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## Abstract

A preliminary essential procedure in time series analysis is the separation of the deterministic component from the random one. If the signal is the result of superposing a noise over a deterministic trend, then the first one must estimate and remove the trend from the signal to obtain an estimation of the stationary random component. The errors accompanying the estimated trend are conveyed as well to the estimated noise, taking the form of detrending errors. Therefore the statistical errors of the estimators of the noise parameters obtained after detrending are larger than the statistical errors characteristic to the noise considered separately. In this paper we study the detrending errors by means of a Monte Carlo method based on automatic numerical algorithms for nonmonotonic trends generation and for construction of estimated polynomial trends alike to those obtained by subjective methods. For a first order autoregressive noise we show that in average the detrending errors of the noise parameters evaluated by means of the autocovariance and autocorrelation function are almost uncorrelated to the statistical errors intrinsic to the noise and they have comparable magnitude. For a real time series with significant trend we discuss a recursive method for computing the errors of the estimated parameters after detrending and we show that the detrending error is larger than the half of the total error.

## Authors

Călin Vamoş
Tiberiu Popoviciu, Institutue of Numerical Analysis

Maria Crăciun
Tiberiu Popoviciu, Institutue of Numerical Analysis

## Keywords

time series analysis; detrending errors; algorithms for nonmonotonic trend generation; autoregressive noise; Monte Carlo methods

## Paper coordinates

C. Vamoş, M. Crăciun, Serial correlation of detrended time series, Physical Review E, Vol. 78 (2008) article id. 036707,
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.036707

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