cobs (version 0.9-3)

DublinWind: Daily Wind Speeds in Dublin

Description

The DublinWind data frame is basically the time series of daily average wind speeds from 1961 to 1978, measured in Dublin, Ireland. These are 6574 observations (18 full years among which four leap years).

Usage

data(DublinWind)

source

From shar file available from http://www.cba.nau.edu/pin-ng/cobs.html

Also available from .......STATLIB..........

Details

The periodic pattern along the 18 years measured and the autocorrelation are to be taken into account for analysis, see the references. This is Example 3 of the COBS paper.

References

Haslett, J. and Raftery, A. (1989) Space-Time Modelling with Long-Memory Dependence: {A}ssessing {I}reland's Wind Power Resource. .......... 38, 1--21.

COBS: Qualitatively Constrained Smoothing via Linear Programming; Computational Statistics 14, 315--337.

He, X. and Ng, P. (1999) COBS: Qualitatively Constrained Smoothing via Linear Programming; Computational Statistics 14, 315--337.

Examples

data(DublinWind)
str(DublinWind)
plot(speed ~ day, data = DublinWind, type = "l")
attach(DublinWind)
plot(wSpeed <- ts(speed))