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\name{Nile}
\docType{data}
\alias{Nile}
\title{Flow of the River Nile}
\usage{Nile}
\description{
  Measurements of the annual flow of the river Nile at Ashwan 1871--1970.
}
\format{
  A time series of length 100.
}
\source{
  Durbin, J. and Koopman, S. J. (2001) \emph{Time Series Analysis by
    State Space Methods.}  Oxford University Press.
  \url{http://www.ssfpack.com/DKbook.html}
}
\references{
  Balke, N. S. (1993) Detecting level shifts in time series.
  \emph{Journal of Business and Economic Statistics} \bold{11}, 81--92.

  Cobb, G. W. (1978) The problem of the Nile: conditional solution to a
  change-point problem.  \emph{Biometrika} \bold{65}, 243--51.
}
\examples{
require(stats); require(graphics)
par(mfrow = c(2, 2))
plot(Nile)
acf(Nile)
pacf(Nile)
ar(Nile) # selects order 2
cpgram(ar(Nile)$resid)
par(mfrow = c(1, 1))
arima(Nile, c(2, 0, 0))

## Now consider missing values, following Durbin & Koopman
NileNA <- Nile
NileNA[c(21:40, 61:80)] <- NA
arima(NileNA, c(2, 0, 0))
plot(NileNA)
pred <-
   predict(arima(window(NileNA, 1871, 1890), c(2, 0, 0)), n.ahead = 20)
lines(pred$pred, lty = 3, col = "red")
lines(pred$pred + 2*pred$se, lty = 2, col = "blue")
lines(pred$pred - 2*pred$se, lty = 2, col = "blue")
pred <-
   predict(arima(window(NileNA, 1871, 1930), c(2, 0, 0)), n.ahead = 20)
lines(pred$pred, lty = 3, col = "red")
lines(pred$pred + 2*pred$se, lty = 2, col = "blue")
lines(pred$pred - 2*pred$se, lty = 2, col = "blue")

## Structural time series models
par(mfrow = c(3, 1))
plot(Nile)
## local level model
(fit <- StructTS(Nile, type = "level"))
lines(fitted(fit), lty = 2)              # contemporaneous smoothing
lines(tsSmooth(fit), lty = 2, col = 4)   # fixed-interval smoothing
plot(residuals(fit)); abline(h = 0, lty = 3)
## local trend model
(fit2 <- StructTS(Nile, type = "trend")) ## constant trend fitted
pred <- predict(fit, n.ahead = 30)
## with 50\% confidence interval
ts.plot(Nile, pred$pred,
        pred$pred + 0.67*pred$se, pred$pred -0.67*pred$se)

## Now consider missing values
plot(NileNA)
(fit3 <- StructTS(NileNA, type = "level"))
lines(fitted(fit3), lty = 2)
lines(tsSmooth(fit3), lty = 3)
plot(residuals(fit3)); abline(h = 0, lty = 3)
}
\keyword{datasets}