# pysteps.timeseries.correlation.temporal_autocorrelation_multivariate#

pysteps.timeseries.correlation.temporal_autocorrelation_multivariate(x, d=0, mask=None, window='gaussian', window_radius=inf)#

For a $$q$$-variate time series $$\mathbf{x}_1,\mathbf{x}_2,\dots,\mathbf{x}_n$$, compute the lag-l correlation matrices $$\mathbf{\Gamma}_l$$, where $$\Gamma_{l,i,j}=\gamma_{l,i,j}$$ and $$\gamma_{l,i,j}=\mbox{corr}(x_i(t),x_j(t-l))$$ for $$i,j=1,2,\dots,q$$ and $$l=0,1,\dots,n-1$$.

Parameters
• x (array_like) – Array of shape (n, q, …) containing the time series $$\mathbf{x}_i$$. The inputs are assumed to be in increasing order with respect to time, and the time step is assumed to be regular. All inputs are required to have finite values. The remaining dimensions after the second one are flattened before computing the correlation coefficients.

• d ({0,1}) – The order of differencing. If d=1, the input time series is differenced before computing the correlation coefficients. In this case, a time series of length n+1 is needed for computing the n-1 coefficients.

• mask (array_like) – Optional mask to use for computing the correlation coefficients. Input elements with mask==False are excluded from the computations. The shape of the mask is expected to be x.shape[2:].

• window ({"gaussian", "uniform"}) – The weight function to use for the moving window. Applicable if window_radius < np.inf. Defaults to ‘gaussian’.

• window_radius (float) – If window_radius < np.inf, the correlation coefficients are computed in a moving window. Defaults to np.inf (i.e. the correlations are computed over the whole domain). If window is ‘gaussian’, window_radius is the standard deviation of the Gaussian filter. If window is ‘uniform’, the size of the window is 2*window_radius+1.

Returns

out – List of correlation matrices $$\Gamma_0,\Gamma_1,\dots,\Gamma_{n-1}$$ of shape (q,q). If window_radius<np.inf, the elements of the list are arrays of shape (x.shape[2:],q,q). In this case, nan values are assigned, when the sample size for computing the correlation coefficients is too small.

Return type

list

References

[CP02]