Data Visualization – Interpretation of Autocorrelation and Partial Autocorrelation

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I am learning about ACF and PACF graphs. I am not sure I understand how to interpret the one I got for my data.

I have searched google for some ACF and PACF examples, and I found some samples of different processes, however, the one I am getting doesn't look similar to any. Does this means there is no seasonality, trend and other processes?

I have also created graphs for unstandardized residuals of my model, do not understand what those means? Does it somehow relate to white noise?

ACF & PACF of y and residuals

Best Answer

Neither the ACF nor the PACF are giving any reason to suppose an ARMA process, trend or seasonality: none of the correlations approach significance at conventional levels. Note that sixteen observations is very few to fit a time series model, so the only effects you might see would be very large ones.

The residuals of the process are the differences between the observations & the fitted values from your model. If your model's good they should be white noise—uncorrelated with zero mean. You don't say what model you fit; but the residuals look a little less like white noise than your original series, so it's probably not a good one.

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