statsmodels.graphics.tsaplots.plot_acf

statsmodels.graphics.tsaplots.plot_acf(x, ax=None, lags=None, alpha=0.05, use_vlines=True, unbiased=False, fft=False, title='Autocorrelation', zero=True, vlines_kwargs=None, **kwargs)[source]

Plot the autocorrelation function

Plots lags on the horizontal and the correlations on vertical axis.

Parameters:
  • x (array_like) – Array of time-series values
  • ax (Matplotlib AxesSubplot instance, optional) – If given, this subplot is used to plot in instead of a new figure being created.
  • lags (int or array_like, optional) – int or Array of lag values, used on horizontal axis. Uses np.arange(lags) when lags is an int. If not provided, lags=np.arange(len(corr)) is used.
  • alpha (scalar, optional) – If a number is given, the confidence intervals for the given level are returned. For instance if alpha=.05, 95 % confidence intervals are returned where the standard deviation is computed according to Bartlett’s formula. If None, no confidence intervals are plotted.
  • use_vlines (bool, optional) – If True, vertical lines and markers are plotted. If False, only markers are plotted. The default marker is ‘o’; it can be overridden with a marker kwarg.
  • unbiased (bool) – If True, then denominators for autocovariance are n-k, otherwise n
  • fft (bool, optional) – If True, computes the ACF via FFT.
  • title (str, optional) – Title to place on plot. Default is ‘Autocorrelation’
  • zero (bool, optional) – Flag indicating whether to include the 0-lag autocorrelation. Default is True.
  • vlines_kwargs (dict, optional) – Optional dictionary of keyword arguments that are passed to vlines.
  • **kwargs (kwargs, optional) – Optional keyword arguments that are directly passed on to the Matplotlib plot and axhline functions.
Returns:

fig – If ax is None, the created figure. Otherwise the figure to which ax is connected.
Return type:

Matplotlib figure instance

See also

matplotlib.pyplot.xcorr, matplotlib.pyplot.acorr, mpl_examples

Notes

Adapted from matplotlib’s xcorr.

Data are plotted as plot(lags, corr, **kwargs)

kwargs is used to pass matplotlib optional arguments to both the line tracing the autocorrelations and for the horizontal line at 0. These options must be valid for a Line2D object.

vlines_kwargs is used to pass additional optional arguments to the vertical lines connecting each autocorrelation to the axis. These options must be valid for a LineCollection object.