[R] coherency and phase plots

[stephen sefick]

I am having a hard time interpreting the phase and coherency plots.
x is two timeseries that occur at the same time   i.e.

          a       b
1       11.2   12.3
16     11.3   12.4
31     11.4   12.5
46     11.5   12.6
...etc

even though my example is does not show this they are oscillating at
more or less the same frequency just shifted by t=x (imagine two sine
waves offset with the 2nd sine wave starting at the peak of the
first).  I would like to know what x is.  I think I am looking for the
phase shift?  The coherency?  Cross-spectrum?  And I have read the
help files,  Shumway and Stoffer has a small section on this, I don't
have journal access,  and I am having trouble finding anything on the
internet.

s = spec.pgram(x)
par(mfrow = c(2,1))
plot(s, plot.type = "coh")
plot(s, plot.type = "pha")

Can R do the cross-spectrum of two timeseries?  How?


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