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AR modeling- should I use it?

Subject: AR modeling- should I use it?
From: "kiwi"
Date: 29 Sep 2006 12:18:27 -0700
Newsgroups: sci.math
Hi,
I'm trying to do forecasting given some initial data. The data that i
have is a little bit tricky and i'm not sure if i can use it for AR.
The data is as follow:
at time t=0 my value is always 1.
At time t=1 I compare my data to time t=0, and get some number that
describe precision, say 0.9.
at time t=2 again i compare my data to time t=0 and get the precision
of say 0.87
i'm doing the same for t=3 and t=4.
In addition, i can get also the precision when t=1 is the base of
comparison. so i can get the precision at time t=2 comparing to time
t=1 (say 0.95), the precision at time t=3 comparing to time t=1 (0.91)
etc....
To conclude i have different starting times t, and for each t, i can
get a set of values (precisions) comparing to the specific t.
as an example, this shows the precision for 4 different starting
times.(t=1,2,3 and t=4)
Time    precision
1->1               1
1->2 0.9
1->3 0.87
1->4 0.85
1->5 0.81

Time    precision
2->2              1
2->3 0.95
2->4 0.91
2->5 0.86


Time    precision
3->3 1
3->4 0.92
3->5 0.89


Time        Precision
4->4              1
4->5             0.97


Now, what i want is to forecast the value at time t=6. As you can see,
first i need to fixed the starting time. so let's say that i want to
forecast the value comparing to t=4. How can i do it?


Notice that I can't use the regular AR model (as much as i understand)
since in the AR model of say AR(2) the function is like
Y(t)=a+bY(t-1)+cY(t-2) , so it means that the value of t=5 for example,

is a function of t=3 and t=4, where in my data the value of t=5 can be
comparing to 4 or comparing to t=3, but they are from different
series.... 


any ideas? suggestions? 


thanks a lot, 
Kiwi


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