How do you tell if the correlations at different lags obtained from the cross-correlation (ccf function) of two time series are significant.
Answer
The variance of the cross-correlation coefficient under the null hypothesis of zero correlation is approx 1/n where n is the length of the series. The coefficients are also asymptotically normal. So approximate critical values (at the 5% level) are ±2/√n.
These critical values are plotted automatically in R using ccf(x,y).
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