conditional_probabilities {otsfeatures}R Documentation

Computes the conditional probabilities of an ordinal time series

Description

conditional_probabilities returns a matrix with the conditional probabilities of an ordinal time series

Usage

conditional_probabilities(series, lag = 1, states)

Arguments

series

An OTS.

lag

The considered lag (default is 1).

states

A numerical vector containing the corresponding states.

Details

Given an OTS of length T with range \mathcal{S}=\{s_0, s_1, s_2, \ldots, s_n\} (s_0 < s_1 < s_2 < \ldots < s_n), \overline{X}_t=\{\overline{X}_1,\ldots, \overline{X}_T\}, the function computes the matrix \widehat{\boldsymbol P}^c(l) = \big(\widehat{p}^c_{i-1j-1}(l)\big)_{1 \le i, j \le n+1}, with \widehat{p}^c_{ij}(l)=\frac{TN_{ij}(l)}{(T-l)N_i}, where N_i is the number of elements equal to s_i in the realization \overline{X}_t and N_{ij}(l) is the number of pairs (\overline{X}_t, \overline{X}_{t-l})=(s_i,s_j) in the realization \overline{X}_t.

Value

A matrix with the conditional probabilities.

Author(s)

Ángel López-Oriona, José A. Vilar

References

Weiß CH (2019). “Distance-based analysis of ordinal data and ordinal time series.” Journal of the American Statistical Association.

Examples

matrix_cp <- conditional_probabilities(series = AustrianWages$data[[100]],
states = 0 : 5) # Computing the matrix of
# conditional probabilities for one series in dataset AustrianWages

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