On 1 March 2006 at 20:06, Jarrett Byrnes wrote:
| Hey, all, I may just be missing something, but I'm trying to construct 
| a temporal autoregression with an independant variable other than just 
| what is happened at a previous point in time.  So, the model structure 
| would be something like
| 
| y(t)=b0+b1*y(t-1)+b2*y(t-2)...+a*x(t)
| 
| I'm even considering a model of
| 
| y(t)=b0+b1*y(t-1)+b2*y(t-2)...+a1*x(t)+a2*x(t-1)...
| 
| So, my data looks like
| 
| Time          y       x
| 1             4       6
| 2             5       10
| 3             10      1
| etc.
| 
| When looking at ar() and similar methods, however, it seemed that the 
| input was a single vector - say, in this case, the value y.  Is there a 
| method that allows me to specify an explicit model that would then 
| incorporate x?

Yes: arima(), see in particular the xreg argument.

Dirk


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