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Re: Detect Irregular Behaviour or Change in Time Series

Posted by Rich Ulrich on Oct 07, 2012; 7:33pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Detect-Irregular-Behaviour-or-Change-in-Time-Series-tp5715519p5715522.html

I think you need to be more specific.  Outlier detection?
Pattern detection?

When I start up my computer, I sometimes kill time
by watching the CPU/memory statistics in Task Manager.

I see Firefox grab a few megabytes at a time until it gets
to 360 MB, while starting and opening 4 or 5 tabs.  That
memory usage, I suppose, is an "irregular pattern" in
two senses.  It is not monotonic, so it is irregular as a linear
increase; and it only happens once in a session, so the
increase is a one-time shot in the overall computer memory
usage for the session. 

Neither of these seems mysterious enough to be interesting.
What would seem more interesting is if someone found a way
to detect a "memory leak" which would be a *regular* pattern.

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Rich Ulrich

> Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 10:13:44 -0400
> From: [hidden email]
> Subject: Detect Irregular Behaviour or Change in Time Series
> To: [hidden email]
>
> I have a time series of memory usage. I need to detect any irregular (
> random) pattern in the series.
>
> Your prompt help will be highly appreciated.
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