96 ANALYSIS OF TIME SERIES USING ARMA MODELS
following. If the components of the white noise v
n
are mutually uncor-
related and the variance-covariance matrix becomes the diagonal matrix
W = diag{
σ
2
1
,···,
σ
2
ℓ
}, then the power spectrum of the i-th component
of the time series can b e expressed as
p
ii
( f ) =
ℓ
∑
j=1
b
i j
( f )
σ
2
j
b
i j
( f )
∗
≡
ℓ
∑
j=1
|b
i j
( f )|
2
σ
2
j
. (6.38)
This indicates that the power of the fluctuation of the c omponent
i at frequency f can be decomposed into the effects of ℓ noises, i.e.,
|b
i j
( f )|
2
σ
2
j
. Ther efore, if we define r
i j
( f ) by
r
i j
( f ) =
|b
i j
( f )|
2
σ
2
j
p
ii
( f )
, (6.39)
it represents th e ratio of the effect of v
n
( j) in the flu ctuation of y
n
(i) at
frequency f .
The r
i j
( f ) is called the relative power contribution, which is app li-
cable to the analy sis of a feedback system (Akaike (1968), Akaike and
Nakagawa (1989)). However, for convenience in drawing figures, a cu-
mulative power contribution is an effective tool, which is defined by
s
i j
( f ) =
j
∑
k=1
r
ik
( f ) =
j
∑
k=1
|b
ik
( f )|
2
σ
2
k
p
ii
( f )
. (6.40)
Example Figure 6.7 shows the cross spectra obtained by using a
three-variate AR model for the three- variate time series composed of
the yaw rate, the pitch rate and the rudder angle shown in (a) and (h) of
Figure 1.1 (N = 500 and △t = 2 second) that were originally sampled
every second. T hree of nine plots on the d iagonal in the figu re show the
logarithm of the power spectra of the yaw rate, the pitch rate and the
rudder angle, respectively. As for the power spectra of the yaw rate, the
maximum peak is seen in the vicinity of f = 0.25 (8 seconds cycle) and
for the pitch rate and the rudder an gle in the vic inity of f = 0.125 (16
seconds cycle). On the other hand, three plots above the diagonal show
the absolute values of the amplitude spectra of the cross spectra, that is,
the logarithm of the amplitude spectra and three plots below the diagonal
show the phase spectra where some discontinuous jumps are seen. The
reason for this is that the phase spectra are displayed with in the range
[−
π
,
π
].