Real-Time Estimation of Autocovariance for Large Time Series with Gaps and Its Application
摘要
A method for constructing empirical autocovariance for a time series with gaps directly in the course of data arrival is considered. The proposed approach uses ideas of information accumulation under conditions of big data. Namely, as data arrive, canonical information of a special form is updated, and the actual autocovariance estimate is computed from it in real time. Therewith, it becomes unnecessary to store old data. As the main application of autocovariance estimate, we consider the problem of optimal estimation of missing fragments. In this work, we investigate the effect of gaps of different types and the fraction of gaps on the accuracy of constructing the autocovariance estimate and consider the effect of these factors on the quality of filling the missing fragments of the time series. It is shown that the autocovariance estimates constructed on the basis of series with a large fraction of often gaps can lose some important properties of autocovariance such as smoothness and positive definiteness, which negatively affects the quality of filling the gaps.