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SELECTION OF
AR MODEL ORDER

           Presented by:

           Naveen Kumar
           M.E. ECE
           Roll No. : 112610
Introduction
 In the model-based approach, the spectrum estimation
  procedure consists of two steps.

(i) We estimate the parameters{ak}and{bk} of the model.

(ii) From these estimates, we compute the power           spectrum
  estimate.
 There are three types of models :-

 AR Model

 MA Model

 ARMA Model
What is AR Model?
 A model which depends only on the previous outputs of the

  system is called an autoregressive model (AR).
 Note that:-

    AR model is based on frequency-domain analysis.

    AR model has only poles while the MA model has only zeros.
AR Model Equation
  The AR-model of a random process in discrete time is defined
  by the following expression:




 where a1,a2…..,ap coefficients of the recursive filter;

 p is the order of the model;

 Є(t) are output uncorrelated errors or simply White noise.
Need for selection of model order
 An order selection criterion is used to determine the
  appropriate order for the AR model.
 The model parameters are found by solving a set of linear

  equation obtained by minimizing the mean squared error.
 The characteristic of this error is that it decreases as the order
  of the AR model is increased.
Need…
 One of the most important consideration is the choice of the

  number of terms in the AR model, this is known as its order p.
 If a model with too low an order, We obtain a highly smoothed

  spectrum.
 If a model with too high an order, There is risk of introducing
  spurious low-level peaks in the spectrum.
AR Model Order Selection
 Two of the better known criteria for selection the model order
  have been proposed by Akaike –(1969,1974.)

2) Known as Finite Prediction Error (FPE) criterion.




      = estimated variance of the linear prediction error.

  N = number of samples.

  p = is the order of model.
1) The second criterion proposed by Akaike (1974),called the
   Akaike Information Criterion (AIC)



      decreases & therefore         also decreases as the order of
   the AR model is increased.

       increases with increases in p.
Difference between FPE & AIC
(i) FPE (p)
   Is recommended for longer data records.
   It never exceeds model order selected by AIC



(ii) AIC (p)
    Is recommended for short data records.
1) An alternative information criterion, proposed by Rissanen
   (1983),is based on selecting the order that minimizes the
   description length :-
1) A fourth criterion has been proposed by Parzen(1974).

   This is called the Criterion Autoregressive Transfer (CAT)
    function & defined as




   The order p is selected to minimize CAT(p)
Applications
 Texture modelling of visual content.
 Speech processing.
 Models for future sample predictions
Drawback
 AR models linearly relate the signal samples which is not valid

  for many real-life applications, where there may be many non-
  linearity.
Conclusion
 The experimental results, just indicate that the model-order

  selection criteria do not yields definitive results.
 The FPE(p) criterion tends to underestimate the model order.
 The AIC criterion is statistically inconsistent as N→∞.
 The MDL information criterion is statistically consistent.
References
 Proakis John G. , “ Digital Signal Processing “ 4rd edition

 Comparison of Criteria for Estimating the Order of

Autoregressive Process: www.eurojournals.com/ejsr.htm
 http://www.hindawi.com/journals/asp/2009/475147/
AR model