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autocorrelation

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autocorrelation [¦ȯd·ō‚kär·ə′lā·shən]
(electronics)
A technique used to detect cyclic activity in a complex signal.
(statistics)
In a time series, the relationship between values of a variable taken at certain times in the series and values of a variable taken at other, usually earlier times.


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We used the partial autocorrelation function (25) to investigate the presence of residual autocorrelation, i.
trends in the mean and variance) and the order of both the seasonal and non-seasonal autoregressive and moving-average indicators by using an autocorrelation function and a partial autocorrelation function (Hipel et al.
Continuous data for each baseline measurement were initially checked for serial dependency by calculation of autocorrelation coefficients.
 
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