# Importing various packages
from math import exp, sqrt
from random import random, seed
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
def autocovariance(x, n, k, mean_x):
sum = 0.0
for i in range(0, n-k):
sum += (x[(i+k)]-mean_x)*(x[i]-mean_x)
return sum/n
n = 1000
x=np.random.normal(size=n)
autocor = np.zeros(n)
figaxis = np.zeros(n)
mean_x=np.mean(x)
var_x = np.var(x)
print(mean_x, var_x)
for i in range (0, n):
figaxis[i] = i
autocor[i]=(autocovariance(x, n, i, mean_x))/var_x
plt.plot(figaxis, autocor, "r-")
plt.axis([0,n,-0.1, 1.0])
plt.xlabel(r'$i$')
plt.ylabel(r'$\gamma_i$')
plt.title(r'Autocorrelation function')
plt.show()
As can be seen from the plot, the first point gives back the variance and a value of one. For the remaining values we notice that there are still non-zero values for the auto-correlation function.