MATLAB: Correlate time-series

correlation

Hi,
I have timeseries data that oscillates around 0 (from -2 to +2) for 50 years.
I want to correlate this with temperature data.
The temp data is not normally distributed – so only kendall tau correlation possible.
Problem, the time-series daya is 160 rows, but the temp data only 80.
The rows must be equal size for Matlab to perform the correlaton.
Please help with my code.
Thank you.

Best Answer

You can use vq = interp1(x,v,xq) to interpolate the temp data so that it has 160 values. Then use R = corrcoef(A,B) to compute the correlation coefficient between the two time series. If one time series is shifted relative to the other, you may want to consider the cross correlation to measure the lag: r = xcorr(x,y).