Help on function arma_generate_sample in module statsmodels.tsa.arima_process:
arma_generate_sample(ar, ma, nsample, sigma=1, distrvs=<built-in method randn of mtrand.RandomState object>, burnin=0)
Generate a random sample of an ARMA process
Parameters
----------
ar : array_like, 1d
coefficient for autoregressive lag polynomial, including zero lag
ma : array_like, 1d
coefficient for moving-average lag polynomial, including zero lag
nsample : int
length of simulated time series
sigma : float
standard deviation of noise
distrvs : function, random number generator
function that generates the random numbers, and takes sample size
as argument
default: np.random.randn
TODO: change to size argument
burnin : integer (default: 0)
to reduce the effect of initial conditions, burnin observations at the
beginning of the sample are dropped
Returns
-------
sample : array
sample of ARMA process given by ar, ma of length nsample
Notes
-----
As mentioned above, both the AR and MA components should include the
coefficient on the zero-lag. This is typically 1. Further, due to the
conventions used in signal processing used in signal.lfilter vs.
conventions in statistics for ARMA processes, the AR paramters should
have the opposite sign of what you might expect. See the examples below.
Examples
--------
>>> import numpy as np
>>> np.random.seed(12345)
>>> arparams = np.array([.75, -.25])
>>> maparams = np.array([.65, .35])
>>> ar = np.r_[1, -arparams] # add zero-lag and negate
>>> ma = np.r_[1, maparams] # add zero-lag
>>> y = sm.tsa.arma_generate_sample(ar, ma, 250)
>>> model = sm.tsa.ARMA(y, (2, 2)).fit(trend='nc', disp=0)
>>> model.params
array([ 0.79044189, -0.23140636, 0.70072904, 0.40608028])