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Simulating ARMA models

As we saw in the video, any stationary time series can be written as a linear combination of white noise. In addition, any ARMA model has this form, so it is a good choice for modeling stationary time series.

R provides a simple function called arima.sim() to generate data from an ARMA model. For example, the syntax for generating 100 observations from an MA(1) with parameter .9 is arima.sim(model = list(order = c(0, 0, 1), ma = .9 ), n = 100). You can also use order = c(0, 0, 0) to generate white noise.

In this exercise, you will generate data from various ARMA models. For each command, generate 200 observations and plot the result.

This exercise is part of the course

ARIMA Models in R

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Exercise instructions

  • Use arima.sim() and plot() to generate and plot white noise.
  • Use arima.sim() and plot() to generate and plot an MA(1) with parameter .9.
  • Use arima.sim() and plot() to generate and plot an AR(2) with parameters 1.5 and -.75.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Generate and plot white noise
WN <- 


# Generate and plot an MA(1) with parameter .9 
MA <- 


# Generate and plot an AR(2) with parameters 1.5 and -.75
AR <- 

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