2015/07/27 by K. Kume, Kume, Kenji, Naoko Nose-Togawa +1
Computer Science · Mathematics · #Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Image and Signal Denoising Methods #Statistical and numerical algorithms
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1507.07330
openalex publication_date 2015/07/27 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Singular spectrum analysis (SSA) is a nonparametric and adaptive spectral decomposition of a time series. The singular value decomposition of the trajectory matrix and the anti-diagonal averaging leads to a time-series decomposition. In this algorithm, a single free parameter, window length K, is involved which is the FIR filter length for the time series. There are no generally accepted criterion for the proper choice of the window length K. Moreover, the proper window length depends on the specific problem which we are interested in. Thus, it is important to monitor the spectral structure of the SSA decomposition and its window length dependence in detail for the practical application. In this paper, based on the filtering interpretation of SSA, it is shown that the decomposition of the power spectrum for the original time series is possible with the filters constructed from the eigenvectors of the lagged-covariance matrix. With this, we can obtain insights into the spectral structure of the SSA decomposition and it helps us for the proper choice of the window length in the practical application of SSA.