[R] Arima with an external regressor

[Prof Brian Ripley]

It's stated on the help page, and it is neither.

Maybe SAS does use `residuals' but `errors' as on the R page is the 
correct term.

What was the problem with doing ?arima?  Unlike SAS, you have the source 
code to read too.

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Eric ESPOSITO wrote:

> Does anybody know if the function arima with an external regressor (xreg)
> applies the auto correlation on the dependant variable or on the residuals.
> In comparison with SAS (proc autoreg), it seems that the auto correlation
> applies on the residuals but i'd like to have the confirmation.
> 
> I want to estimate:
> Y[t] = a[1]*X[t] + a[2] + E[t]
> with E[t]=b[1]*E[t-1]
> 
> Should I use :
> arima(Y, xreg=X, order=c(1,0,0))          or rather              arima(Y,
> xreg=X, order=c(0,0,1))
> And what is the exact equation of the estimating model:
> Y[t] = a[1]*X[t] + a[2] + E[t] + b[1]*E[t-1]     or       Y[t] = a[1]*X[t]
> + a[2] + b[1]*E[t-1]
> where a[1], a[2] and b[1] are the coefficients returned by the arima
> function

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