Detrending data
As you have seen in the previous exercise, differencing is generally good for removing trend from time series data. Recall that differencing looks at the difference between the value of a time series at a certain point in time and its preceding value.
In this exercise, you will use differencing diff()
to detrend and plot real time series data.
This exercise is part of the course
ARIMA Models in R
Exercise instructions
- The package astsa is preloaded.
- Generate a multifigure plot comparing the global temperature data (
globtemp
) with the detrended series. You can create a multifigure plot by running the pre-writtenpar()
command followed by two separate calls toplot()
. - Generate another multifigure plot comparing the weekly cardiovascular mortality in Los Angeles County (
cmort
) with the detrended series.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Plot globtemp and detrended globtemp
par(mfrow = c(2,1))
plot(globtemp)
# Plot cmort and detrended cmort
par(mfrow = c(2,1))
plot(cmort)