On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Kemp S E (Comp) wrote: > Hi, > > I am using the arima.sim function to generate some AR time series. > However, the function does not seem to produce exactly the same time > series when I specify the innov parameter. For example > >> r <- rnorm(300) >> x <- arima.sim(300, model=list(order=c(1,0,0),ar=c(.96)), innov=r, >> n.start=10) >> y <- arima.sim(300, model=list(order=c(1,0,0),ar=c(.96)), innov=r, >> n.start=10) > >> x[1:10] > [1] 3.194806 4.214894 5.168017 7.925152 8.810817 9.131695 > [7] 7.521283 8.266911 8.923429 9.651293 > >> y[1:10] > [1] -0.7202632 0.4564274 1.5598893 4.4613486 > [5] 5.4855660 5.9394547 4.4567320 5.3249417 > [9] 6.0991390 6.9399748 > > Given the fact that I have provided the innovations shouldn't the time > series be exactly the same?
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