est_signal: Estimate the signal

In IDetect: Isolate-Detect Method for Multiple Change-Point Detection

Estimate the signal

Description

This function estimates the signal in a given data sequence x with change-points at cpt. The type of the signal depends on whether the change-points represent changes in the mean of a piecewise-constant signal or a piecewise-linear signal. For more information see Details below.

Usage

est_signal(x, cpt, type = c("mean", "slope"))

Arguments

x	A numeric vector containing the given data.
cpt	A positive integer vector with the locations of the change-points. If missing, the ID_pcm or the ID_plm function (depending on the type of the signal) is called internally to extract the change-points in x.
type	A character string, which defines the type of the detected change-points. If type = ``mean'', then the change-points represent the locations of changes in the mean of a piecewise-constant signal. If type = ``slope'', then the change-points represent the locations of changes in the slope of a piecewise-linear and continuous signal.

Details

The data points provided in x are assumed to follow

X_t = f_t + \sigma\epsilon_t; t = 1,2,...,T

,

where T is the total length of the data sequence, X_t are the observed data, f_t is an one-dimensional, deterministic signal with abrupt structural changes at certain points, and \epsilon_t is white noise. We denote by r_1, r_2, ..., r_N the elements in cpt and by r_0 = 0 and r_{N+1} = T. Depending on the value that has been passed to type, the returned value is calculated as follows.

• For type = "mean", in each segment (r_j + 1, r_{j+1}), f_t for t \in (r_j + 1, r_{j+1}) is approximated by the mean of X_t calculated over t \in (r_j + 1, r_{j+1}).

• For type = "slope", f_t is approximated by the linear spline fit with knots at r_1, r_2, ..., r_N minimising the l_2 distance between the fit and the data.

Value

A numeric vector with the estimated signal.

Author(s)

Andreas Anastasiou, [e-mail]

Examples

single.cpt.pcm <- c(rep(4,1000),rep(0,1000))
single.cpt.pcm.noise <- single.cpt.pcm + rnorm(2000)
cpt.single.pcm <- ID_pcm(single.cpt.pcm.noise)
fit.cpt.single.pcm <- est_signal(single.cpt.pcm.noise, cpt.single.pcm$cpt, type = "mean")

three.cpt.pcm <- c(rep(4,500),rep(0,500),rep(-4,500),rep(1,500))
three.cpt.pcm.noise <- three.cpt.pcm + rnorm(2000)
cpt.three.pcm <- ID_pcm(three.cpt.pcm.noise)
fit.cpt.three.pcm <- est_signal(three.cpt.pcm.noise, cpt.three.pcm$pcm, type = "mean")

single.cpt.plm <- c(seq(0,999,1),seq(998.5,499,-0.5))
single.cpt.plm.noise <- single.cpt.plm + rnorm(2000)
cpt.single.plm <- ID_plm(single.cpt.plm.noise)
fit.cpt.single.plm <- est_signal(single.cpt.plm.noise, cpt.single.plm$cpt, type = "slope")

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