squared coherency and cross-spectrum

I haven't seen a reply, so I will comment even though I've never used 
"coherency" / "coherence" nor "spectrum".  RSiteSearch("coherence") 
produced 13 hits, the third of which looked like it might be relevant to 
your question 
(http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/37640.html). 
RSiteSearch("coherency") produced 12 hits, at least some of which look 
like they might help you.  In my cursory review, it looked like at least 
one of the "coherence" / "coherency" hits also mentioned the 
co-spectrum.  Whether that's true or not, the examples with "?spectrum" 
includes the statement, "for multivariate examples see the help for 
spec.pgram".  If you still have a question for this listserve after 
reviewing these references, PLEASE do read the posting guide! 
'www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html'.  I believe that people who 
follow more closely that posting guide tend to receive quicker, more 
useful answers than those who don't.

	  I hope you won't mind if I now ask you a question:  What can you get 
from "coherency" and "co-spectrum" that you can't get as easily from 
autocorrelation and partial autocorrelation functions, including the 
cross-correlations?

	  hope this helps.
	  spencer graves

Hi All,

I have two time series, each has length 354. I tried to calculate the 
coherency^2 between them, but the value I got is always 1. On a website, 
it says: " Note that if the ensemble averaging were to be omitted, the 
coherency (squared) would be 1, independent of the data". Does any of 
you know how to specify properly in R in order to get more useful 
coherency? The examples in the help do give coherencies that are not 1s, 
but I did not notice any special specification.

Next question is on co-spectrum. When I supply "spectrum" function with 
multiple time series, it only gives me spectrum (smoothed periodogram) 
of individual time series. Is there any way I can get the 
cross-spectrum? I believe R has calculated it, but I could not find in 
the returned values.

Attached is the smoothed periodogram of the two time series.

Thanks a lot!

Ling


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