Miscellanea. An improved state space representation for cyclical time series

Biometrika ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 87 (3) ◽  
pp. 724-726 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Haywood
Author(s):  
I Trendafilova

The paper considers some possibilities to use pure time series analysis for damage diagnosis in vibrating structures. It introduces the basics of the state space methodology and discusses a number of possible methods to extract damage sensitive features from the state space representation of the attractor of a vibrating system. The discussed methods can be divided into two groups: methods that use non-linear dynamics characteristics and methods based on the statistical characteristics of the distribution of points on the attractor. Each possible damage feature is introduced separately and the advantages and shortfalls of its application are discussed. The application of the suggested techniques is demonstrated on a test case of a reinforced concrete plate.


2010 ◽  
Vol 133-134 ◽  
pp. 397-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shunsuke Yamada ◽  
Masato Araya ◽  
Mitsuharu Fukuda ◽  
Yoshinori Iwasaki

Based on the past monitoring data of crack movements and various weather conditions by JASA (Japanese Government Team of Safeguarding Angkor), we quantitatively examine about the effects of each weather conditions to each crack movements at Bayon main tower. Then, we applied the time series analysis using a state-space representation in the examination. In the model of the state-space representation, the factors of crack movement are assumed as temperature, wind velocity and rainfall. Those quantitative examinations of crack movements will be necessary for the planning of reinforcement and restoration at Bayon main tower.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karim Douch ◽  
Peyman Saemian ◽  
Nico Sneeuw

<p>Originating from econometrics, the concept of Granger causality (GC) has been widely used in a variety of fields, including climate sciences, to infer directional dependencies between stochastic variables.  Going one step further than the simple detection of lag-correlations, GC evaluates the directed interaction of a variable Y on a variable X by quantifying the improvement of prediction of future values of X when past values of Y are considered or omitted. Although not prescribed initially as such, GC is routinely computed from an estimated vector autoregressive model of the data of interest X, with and without the exogenous variable Y. However, such a modelling is somewhat restrictive and not suitable for filtered, sampled and noisy time series which may contain a moving-average component, impairing at the same time the quality of the GC estimator. Conversely, state-space representation offers a much more general framework for linear time series modelling.</p><p>In this study, we use Granger causality in the framework of a state-space modelling of time series to infer the presence of causal influences of the sea surface temperature (SST) and the 500hPa geopotential height on the Terrestrial Water Storage Anomaly (TWSA) over Australia[PS1] . A first and critical step is to reduce the high-dimension of the spatio-temporal data to a size compatible with classical state-space modelling algorithms. To do that we extract a limited number of leading modes of variability from the geophysical fields. Next, the state-space models of the extracted modes are identified using subspace-based methods. Then, the Granger causality of every mode of SST (resp. 500hPa geopotential height) on TWSA is estimated. Finally, we discuss the capability of the presented method to detect real directional dependencies in the light of current knowledge on Australia’s rainfall climatology and compare it to the results obtained with the classical vector autoregressive models.</p>


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