Skip to content

L32 Cross covariance and Cross correlation

  • Random variable: \(X_{i}\)
  • Random vector: \(( X_{1},X_{2},\dots,X_{p} )\)
  • Random vector: \((Y_{t},Y_{t+1},Y_{t+2},\dots,Y_{t+n})\)
\[ E(X) = [E(X_{1}), E(X_{2}),\dots E(X_{p})]' = (\mu_{1},\mu_{2},\dots,\mu_{p})' \]

The variance-covariance matrix:

\[ E(X-\mu)(X-\mu)' = \]

"Dispersion matrix"

\[ \begin{bmatrix} \sigma_{11} & \dots & \sigma_{1p} \\ \vdots & \ddots & \vdots \\ \sigma_{p1} & \dots & \sigma_{pp} \\ \end{bmatrix} \]

Cross Covariance Matrix

\[ \Sigma_{xy} = E(X-\mu_{x})(Y-\mu_{y})' \]
  • \(ij\)-th element of \(\Sigma_{xy}\) is the covariance between \(X_{i}\) and \(Y_{j}\)

Stationary Multivariate Time Series

  • \(Y_{t} = (Y_{1t},\dots,Y_{kt})'\) where \(t \in T \equiv (\pm 1, \pm 2,\dots)\)
  • \(Y\) is a collection of different time series \(Y_{1}, Y_{2},\dots Y_{k}\). We are looking at the time \(t\) value of this collection.
  • \(Y_{t}\) is stationary if
    • joint probability distribution of \((Y_{t_{1}},Y_{t_{2}},\dots Y_{t_{n}})\)
    • is the same as that of \((Y_{t_{1}+l},Y_{t_{2}+l},\dots Y_{t_{n}+l})\)
    • for all time stamps \(\{ t_{1}\dots t_{n},n \}\) and all leads and lags.

Moments of the Process

  • Mean vector \(E(Y_{t}) =\mu = (\mu_{1},\mu_{2},\dots, \mu_{k})'\)
  • where \(\mu_{i}\) is the mean of an individual time series part of \(Y_{t}\)
  • Covariance matrix: \(E(Y_{t}-\mu)(Y_{t}-\mu)' \equiv \Sigma\)

Cross Covariance & Cross Correlation

  • Autocovariance function for \(y_{it}\) (one of the individual processes from \(Y_{t}\))
    $$
    \gamma_{ii}(l) = E(y_{it}-\mu_{i})(y_{i,t+l}- \mu_{i})
    $$

  • Cross covariance between \(y_{it}, y_{jt}\) at lag \(l\):

\[ \gamma_{ij}(l) = E(y_{it}-\mu_{i})(y_{j,t+l}-\mu_{j}) \]
  • Cross correlation

$$
\rho_{ij}(l) = \dfrac{\gamma_{ij}(l)}{{\gamma_{ii}(0)\gamma_{jj}(0)}^{1/2}}
$$
- Cross covariance matrix

\[ \Gamma(l) = E(Y_{t}-\mu)(Y_{t}-\mu)' \]
  • \(\rho(l)=V^{1/2}\rho(l)V^{-1/2}\)
  • where \(V = diag(\gamma_{11}(0),\gamma_{22}(0),\dots,\gamma_{kk}(0))\)

Vector White Noise Process

\[ \{ e_{t} \} \sim WN(0,\Sigma) \]

if and only if,

  • \(e_{t}\) is stationary with mean \(\vec{0}\) and variance covariance matrix
\[ \Gamma(k) = \begin{cases} \Sigma, & k=0 \\ 0, & \text{otherwise} \end{cases} \]