I'm new to R, statistics and time series, so I would really appreciate any help, explanations or suggestion on good readings on the topic.
I have two time series representing the number of times a word, say "election", was used on Twitter and the number of times it was used on television, in a day for a month.
I want to find the correlation between the two, but honestly I really don't know what to do. I was going to directly use ccf() in R, but reading some other question here, I don't think this would be correct.
Are there any requirements or necessary conditions on the series to find the correlation with ccf()? Is it the right type of correlation coefficient? Which are the step I need to perform to make it work?
Best Answer
Your very straightforward simple question has unfortunately both a simple and a complex answer. I will avoid the simple . In summary the whole idea is that one needs to account for / condition for intra-correlation while identifying the inter-correlation . Following are some references that you might consider before attempting to proceed . The first is an easy iverview
ARIMAX model's exogenous components?
this reference provides info as to why you should be aware of simple soulutions that may be routinely available
http://empslocal.ex.ac.uk/people/staff/dbs202/cat/stats/corr.html
This outlines a general procedure which is far from general as it doesn't deal with Gaussian Violations.
https://onlinecourses.science.psu.edu/stat510/node/75
This provides a gentle overview of regression vs simple ARIMA time series methods.
http://www.autobox.com/cms/index.php/afs-university/intro-to-forecasting?start=5
Lastly, arm yourself with data and try different approaches .
Hope this helps ..