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Kernels

Kernels are used to smooth the periodogram by using a weighted moving average of nearby points. A smoothed periodogram is defined by the following equation.

$\begin{eqnarray*} \hat{J}_{i}(\textrm{l}(q)) = \sum _{{\tau } = -\textrm{l}(q)}^{\textrm{l}(q)} {\textrm{w}\left( \frac{{\tau }}{\textrm{l}(q)} \right) \tilde{J}_{i+{\tau }}} \nonumber \end{eqnarray*}$

where ${\mr {w}(x)}$ is the kernel or weight function. At the endpoints, the moving average is computed cyclically; that is,

$\begin{eqnarray*} \tilde{J}_{i+{\tau }} = \begin{cases} J_{i+{\tau }} & 0 <= i+\tau <= q \\ J_{-(i+{\tau })} & i+\tau < 0 \\ J_{q-(i+{\tau })} & i+\tau > q \end{cases}\nonumber \end{eqnarray*}$

The SPECTRA procedure supports the following kernels. They are listed with their default bandwidth functions.

Bartlett: KERNEL BART

$\begin{eqnarray*} \textrm{w}(x) & =& \begin{cases} 1-{|x|} & {|x|}{\le }1 \\ 0 & \mr {otherwise} \end{cases}\\ \mr {l}(q) & =& \frac{1}{2} q^{1 / 3} \nonumber \end{eqnarray*}$

Parzen: KERNEL PARZEN

$\begin{eqnarray*} \textrm{w}(x) & =& \begin{cases} 1-6{|x|}^{2} + 6{|x|}^{3} & {0{\le }{|x|}{\le }\frac{1}{2}} \\ 2(1-{|x|})^{3} & {\frac{1}{2}{\le }{|x|}{\le }1} \\ 0 & \mr {otherwise} \end{cases}\\ \mr {l}(q) & =& q^{1 / 5} \nonumber \end{eqnarray*}$

Quadratic spectral: KERNEL QS

$\begin{eqnarray*} \mr {w}(x) & =& \frac{25}{12{\pi }^{2} x^{2}} \left( \frac{{sin}(6{\pi }x/5)}{6{\pi }x/5} - {cos}(6{\pi }x/5) \right) \\ \textrm{l}(q) & =& \frac{1}{2} q^{1 / 5} \nonumber \end{eqnarray*}$

Tukey-Hanning: KERNEL TUKEY

$\begin{eqnarray*} \textrm{w}(x) & =& \begin{cases} (1+{cos}( {\pi } x))/2 & {|x|}{\le }1 \\ 0 & \mr {otherwise} \end{cases}\\ \mr {l}(q) & =& \frac{2}{3} q^{1 / 5} \nonumber \end{eqnarray*}$

Truncated: KERNEL TRUNCAT

$\begin{eqnarray*} \textrm{w}(x) & =& \begin{cases} 1 & {|x|}{\le }1 \\ 0 & \mr {otherwise} \end{cases}\\ \mr {l}(q) & =& \frac{1}{4} q^{1 / 5} \nonumber \end{eqnarray*}$

A summary of the default values of the bandwidth parameters, c and e, associated with the kernel smoothers in PROC SPECTRA are listed below in Table 26.2:

Table 26.2: Bandwidth Parameters

Kernel	c	e
Bartlett	$1/2$	$1/3$
Parzen	$1$	$1/5$
quadratic	$1/2$	$1/5$
Tukey-Hanning	$2/3$	$1/5$
truncated	$1/4$	$1/5$

Figure 26.1: Kernels for Smoothing

See Andrews (1991) for details about the properties of these kernels.

The SPECTRA Procedure

Kernels