Paraphrased from Thomson et al. (2001): Form an intermediate spectrum by dividing MTM by AR estimate. Choose an order P for a predictor. A variety of formal methods are available in the literature, but practically, one keeps increasing P (the order) until the range of the intermediate spectrum Si(f) (equation (C4) of Thomson et al., 2001) stops decreasing rapidly as a function of P. If the intermediate spectrum is not roughly white, as judged by the minima, the value of P should be increased.
mtmAR(dat,tbw=3,ntap=NULL,order=1,method="mle",CItype=1,padfac=5,demean=T,detrend=F,
output=1,xmin=0,xmax=Nyq,pl=1,genplot=T,verbose=T)spec.mtm, mtm, mtmML96, lowspec, and periodogram