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Determination of the Degree of Freedom of Digital Filtered Time Series With an Application to the Correlation Analysis Between the Length of Day and the Southern Oscillation Index* YAN Hao-ming Key Laboratoy

ZHONG Min

of Dynamic Geodesy, Institute

ZHU Yao-zhong of Geodesy and Geophysics,

Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430077

Abstract After digital filtering the degree of freedom of the original observational time series will be greatly decreased. For a given filter, simulation by the Monte Carlo method can be used to obtain the critical correlation coefficients at given confidence levels and the degree of freedom of the filtered time series. If the ratio between the frequency bandwidth after filtering and the Nyquist frequency is 2, then the degree of freedom of the filtered time series will be 2 and Z/2 times of the original value for perfect single-sideband and double-sideband filters. For non-perfect filters, it should, and can, be found by Monte Carlo simulation. Key words:

methods: data analysis

1. INTRODUCTION

In astronomical data processing, correlation analysis of 2-dimensional and multi-dimensional time series, including mutual-correlation analysis with time delay, is used frequently to reveal the mutual dependence and the degree of correlation of the time series11-41. And in the correlation analysis digital filtering is utilized very often. The technique of digital filtering can separate the information in the required frequency band from the original observational time series and provide a better basis for the analysis. In addition, the corresponding test Received 2002-11-20; revised version * A translation of Acto Astron. Sin. 02751062/04/$-see front matter DOI: 10.1016/j.chinastron.2004.01.014

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on the statistical result of the correlation analysis is extremely important as well. The relationship between digital filtering and the degree of freedom is rather complicated. After filtering the degree of freedom of the original series is greatly decreased and the critical correlation coefficient at the given confidence level will be raised. Since the 1920s it has been popular to set a window on the original time series for reducing spectrum leakage and enhancing the spectrum stability, but at the same time this method will decrease the degree of freedom of the original data. So, a good determination of the degree of freedom for the filtered time series is an important problem in the practical applications. This problem can be precisely solved by the method of Monte Carlo simulation. This method is simple, practical and is effective in scientific research.

2. ESTIMATING COEFFICIENT

THE CRITICAL BY THE METHOD

VALUE OF CORRELATION OF MONTE CARLO TEST

The time-delay mutual correlation function p(r) of two time series zi (t) and ~2 (t) is defined by the formula151: C~(Zl p(T)

=

[Var(z1)

I z2) *

Var(z2)]‘/2



in which Cav(zi, zz) is the covariance function of the two time series at delay time 7, VW(Z) is the variance function of the time series 2, and p(O) is the correlation coefficient. In the correlation analysis significance test is necessary to determine whether the correlation coefficient is larger than the critical value at the given significance level. We frequently meet problems relating to the correlation between multiple time series. For example, solar flare may be related to more than 10 factors, such as sunspot area, relative sunspot number over the hemisphere, the synthetic flocculus index of the solar disk, and so on. In such cases, we deal with multi-element correlation analysis. Significance test is again necessary. In recent years, following the rapidly increased computing speed of computers, the Monte Carlo method has been widely used. To estimate the critical value of the correlation coefficient by the Monte Carlo method is a simple, feasible and new way, and it provides such a big sample that repeated computations are possible. For the computation of the critical correlation coefficient at a given confidence level with the Monte Carlo method, the detailed procedures can be found in Reference [4]. When the sample size is 400 thousands, the critical correlation coefficients of two time series and of multi-element (belement and 4-element) time series at the 90% and 95% confidence levels obtained by the Monte Carlo simulation differ from the results given in Table 2 of Reference [6] by less than O.Ol,-the agreement is very good. The maximum standard deviation of these critical values is f0.005. This means that the computational results are correct and stable. 3. DIGITAL

FILTERING

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THE

DEGREE

OF FREEDOM

(DOF)

Digital filtering is a way of data smoothing to pick up useful signal from the observational data and to suppress the measuring noise 161. In the data processing of astronomical mea-

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surements, the two most used forms of digital filtering are the Vondrak filtering and FFT filtering. After filtering of the original time series, what is obtained is part of the useful signal, with a much reduced degree of freedom. The inherent relationship between the degree of freedom and the filtering can be found by the Monte Carlo method. Simulating the relationship between the degree of freedom and the filtering by the Monte Carlo method is similar to the computation of the critical correlation coefficient, the difference is that the corresponding filtering should be made on the generated original normally distributed random series. After the correlation coefficient of the filtered time series is obtained, by consulting the critical value table of the correlation coefficient at the given level, the corresponding degree of freedom is determined. 3.1 Vondrak

Filtering

and the DOF

For the 3rd-order Vondrak filter, an analytic expression for its frequency response function F(E, T) i&‘l:

F(E,T)= ( I+-; (q-l in which E is the smoothing factor, T is the response period. A < l), we obtain:

> Assuming F(E, T) = A (0 <

3.1.1 High-pass filtering and low-pass filtering A high-pass filter preserves the high frequency signal of the observational data. If T, is the cutoff period, and AT is the sampling interval, then according to Eq.(l) we can find the smoothing factor sh for F(&h,T,) = 0.01 for making the digital filtering. In this case, the analytic expression of the DOF of the filtered data is: DOF=

1-g . W - 4, (3) c> ( in which N is the size of the original observational time series. A low-pass filter will reserve the low frequency signal in the observational data. For the low-pass filtering, we find the smoothing factor Q corresponding to F(el, T,) = 0.99 for making the digital filtering. Meanwhile, in order to obtain the analytic relation between the digital filtering and the DOF, we have to find the low-frequency zero-response period TI corresponding to F(E~, Tl) = 0.01 by using the calculated sl and Eq.(2), and we have DOF = F.

(N - 2).

From the simulated results in Table 1, we can find that for the Vondrak high-pass and low-pass filters the relationships expressed by Eqs(3) and (4) indeed hold.

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N

AT

Tc

E

High

pass

702 502 1002

30 30 30

210 150 120

7.2x10-l2 5.5~10~” 2.1x 10-10

Low

pass

3002 1602 402

30 30 30

180 120 120

1.8x10-” 2.0~10-‘~ 2.0~10-‘~

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high

and

Critical correlation coefficients at 90% confidential levels 0.067 0.083 0.060

Critical correlation coefficients at 95% confidential levels 0.080 0.098 0.072

DOF

0.075 0.084 0.167

0.089 0.100 0.199

500 400 100

low.pass

600 400 750

It should be mentioned that when the high-pass or low-pass zero-response period Tl = 2AT, the filtering is called limiting filtering. And when Tl < 2AT, its frequency is less than the Nyquist frequency, the filtering will have no practical meaning, and Eqs.(3) and (4) can no longer be used. 3.1.2 Bandpass filtering The bandpass filter will reserve the signal of a specified frequency band in the observational data. Let T,I and Tc2 be the low and high cutoff frequencies, and the sampling interval be AT. It might seem that from the analytic expressions given in Section 3.1.1 we can derive the DOF for the data after bandpass filtering to be DOFband = (g-3Iv-2), but this is not true. The actual DOF after bandpass filtering is bet&en D%Fban~ and 2 x DOFband, and it does not observe any analytic expression. From the results in Table 2 we can find that the DOF is greater than DOF band; the ratios corresponding to Table 2 are 1.67, 1.3 and 1.3. For the convenience of applications, in case of bandpass filtering we can select DOFband as the DOF after filtering, but we have to keep in mind that the corresponding critical correlation coefficient will be higher than that of the actual confidence level. If we have to determine the DOF precisely, then simulation by the Monte Carlo method is necessary. The reason that after bandpass filtering the DOF is greater than DOFb,,,j can be explained as follows: if Fi and Fz are respectively the data after corresponding low-pass filtering, then for the perfect filtering, the result of bandpass filtering should be AF = FI - F2, and the DOF should be DOFband. But because the Vondrak filter is not perfect, the actual result is AF = FI - F2 + A, A corresponding to a residual difference between a value in the low-pass filtered Fz within the frequency range of the frequency response (O-l) and the value in FI with the same frequency. Because this residual difference is related to the filtering factor Fz, some uncertainty exists. But for the bandpass filtering one of the common characteristics is this: because of the existence of this residual difference, the DOF after bandpass filtering is a little larger than DOF band. In practical applications, when the cutoff period is much longer than the sampling interval (for example, the annual variation), DOFband can be used approximately for DOF of the filtered data.

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N

High pass 602 602 Low pass 602 602 Band pass 602 602

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coefficients and DOFs of the data filter, simulated by the Monte Carlo

Altered method

Filtering

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the

Critical correlation Critical correlation DOF coefficients at 90% coefficients at 95% confidential levels confidential levels 30 120 180 0.220 0.262 50 30 60 180 0.132 0.158 160 30 210 420 0.225 0.266 55 T,l

Tcz

correlation coefficients and DOFs of the data filtered filter, simulated by the Monte Carlo method

Method

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with

the

FFT

Critical correlation Critical correlation DOF coefficients at 90% coefficients at 95% confidential levels confidential levels 30 0.082 0.098 400 60 0.074 0.088 500 30 0.117 0.138 200 300 0.377 0.443 20 30 120 0.134 0.158 150 300 400 0.645 0.725 5 Tel

Tc2

and the DOF

Another filtering method used in astronomical data processing is the FFT filtering in the frequency domain. This method is simple and practical. Let T,l be the cutoff period in the low-pass or high-pass filtering, Tcl and Tc2 (T,I < Tc2) be the cutoff periods in the bandpass filtering, N be the sample size and AT, the sampling interval. By simulation experiments (Table 3), the DOF for the data after FFT filtering is: (1) DOF= y (2) DOF=

(N - 2) for the low-pass filtering;

(I 1 y)

(3)D()F=2‘(? --g)

(N - 2) for the high-pass filtering; (N - 2) for the bandpass filtering.

Compared with %e Vox$rak filtering, the DOF of the data after FFT filtering is twice the size. This is because the FFT is a kind of double-sideband filtering, in which contributions come from both the positive and negative frequency regions while the Vondrak filtering is a kind of single-sideband filtering. And as the FFT is a perfect filter, so a precise analytic expression for the DOF of the data after the FFT bandpass filtering is available.

4. AN

EXAMPLE

OF APPLICATION

For explaining better the application of the DOF determination for the filtered time series in the correlation analysis, we will give here the correlation analysis between the length of day and the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI). This correlation has been studied by many authors[2*3*81. In this paper, the SO1 data come from Internet http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov /data/indices/index.html, and the data of the length of day come from COMB2000. A total

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set of 372 monthly averaged data points spans the time from the beginning of 1970 to the end of 2000. In order to obtain the signal of 2-7 years, the Vondrak filtering is made on the original data, with filtering factors 1.0 x lo-l2 and 1.0 x 10-17. According to the theory in Section 3, we can simulate the DOF of the filtered data to be DOFban,j = 32 by the Monte Carlo method. First we make a standard processing on the filtered data, then we make a time-lag correlation analysis on the two data series in the time domain, and the result is shown in Fig.1. If we take no account of the change in the DOF of the filtered data, then the 95% confidence level threshold is indicated by the long dashed line in the figure; if we do take account of the change of the DOF, then the 95% confidence level threshold, by the short dashed line: the difference between the two cases is remarkable. If we do not consider the change of the DOF, it will lead to a lower confidence level, and even to a wrong conclusion. From Fig.1 we can also find that the maximum correlation between the two time series is at time lag of one month, when the correlation coefficient is 0.616, which is greater than the critical correlation coefficients 0.342 and 0.437 for the confidence levels 95% and 99%, respectively. This implies that a marked correlation exists between the length of day and the SOI. -

time -Lag Corrdation Coefficients

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1000

2000

3000

4000

5000

Lag Days Fig. 1 The time-lag correlation coefficients between the length of day and the SO1 (solid line), the critical correlation coefficients at 95% confidence level when change in the DOF is taken into account (short dashed line), and the same when the change in the DOF is not taken into account (long dashed line)

5. CONCLUSION Our experimental study on the relationship between the DOF of freedom of the filtered data and the filtering parameters for the two different kinds of filters shows clearly that some inherent relationship between the two exists indeed. By the Monte Carlo method the DOF of the filtered data can be determined. If the ratio between the frequency bandwidth after filtering and the Nyquist frequency is 2, then the DOF of the filtered time series will be 2 and Z/2 times that of the original data for single-sideband and double-sideband perfect filters respectively. For non-perfect filters, the precise determination of the DOF should be made by the Monte Carlo simulation, which can be recommended for being simple and practical. Finally, by the example of the correlation between the length of day and the SOI,

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it is demonstrated that the confidence level is believable only if the change in the DOF after filtering has been taken into consideration; otherwise, a wrong conclusion may result. In summary, after digital filtering the DOF of the time series should, and can be, determined by the Monte Carlo method.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We thank Dr. ZHOU Yong-hong for help in the completion

of this paper.

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