On Sun, 12 Feb 2006, oliver wee wrote:
> Hello, I need some help in differencing a time series.
>
> For example I have a data set with 100 data points. I
> need to create a new dataset that consists of the
> difference of two succeeding data points.
>
> something akin to this formula in java:
> for (int i = 0, i < 100, i++)
> {
> newdataset[i] = olddataset[i] - olddataset[i-1]
> }
Surely that is incorrect: what is olddataset[-1] in Java?
R does this right in diff().
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