Inferring directed spectral information flow between mixed-frequency time series

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Main Authors: Xian, Qiqi, Chen, Zhe Sage
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author Xian, Qiqi
Chen, Zhe Sage
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Chen, Zhe Sage
contents Identifying directed spectral information flow between multivariate time series is important for many applications in finance, climate, geophysics and neuroscience. Spectral Granger causality (SGC) is a prediction-based measure characterizing directed information flow at specific oscillatory frequencies. However, traditional vector autoregressive (VAR) approaches are insufficient to assess SGC when time series have mixed frequencies (MF) or are coupled by nonlinearity. Here we propose a time-frequency canonical correlation analysis approach ("MF-TFCCA") to assess the strength and driving frequency of spectral information flow. We validate the approach with extensive computer simulations on MF time series under various interaction conditions and further assess statistical significance of the estimate with surrogate data. In various benchmark comparisons, MF-TFCCA consistently outperforms the traditional parametric MF-VAR model in both computational efficiency and detection accuracy, and recovers the dominant driving frequencies. We further apply MF-TFCCA to real-life finance, climate and neuroscience data. Our analysis framework provides an exploratory and computationally efficient nonparametric approach to quantify directed information flow between MF time series in the presence of complex and nonlinear interactions.
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spellingShingle Inferring directed spectral information flow between mixed-frequency time series
Xian, Qiqi
Chen, Zhe Sage
Signal Processing
Quantitative Methods
Identifying directed spectral information flow between multivariate time series is important for many applications in finance, climate, geophysics and neuroscience. Spectral Granger causality (SGC) is a prediction-based measure characterizing directed information flow at specific oscillatory frequencies. However, traditional vector autoregressive (VAR) approaches are insufficient to assess SGC when time series have mixed frequencies (MF) or are coupled by nonlinearity. Here we propose a time-frequency canonical correlation analysis approach ("MF-TFCCA") to assess the strength and driving frequency of spectral information flow. We validate the approach with extensive computer simulations on MF time series under various interaction conditions and further assess statistical significance of the estimate with surrogate data. In various benchmark comparisons, MF-TFCCA consistently outperforms the traditional parametric MF-VAR model in both computational efficiency and detection accuracy, and recovers the dominant driving frequencies. We further apply MF-TFCCA to real-life finance, climate and neuroscience data. Our analysis framework provides an exploratory and computationally efficient nonparametric approach to quantify directed information flow between MF time series in the presence of complex and nonlinear interactions.
title Inferring directed spectral information flow between mixed-frequency time series
topic Signal Processing
Quantitative Methods
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.06109