简介:SeveralARMAmodelingapproachesareaddressed.Inthesemethodsonlypartofacorrelationsequenceisemployedforestimatingparameters.Itissatisfying,ifthegivencorrelationsequenceisofrealARMA,sinceanARMAprocesscanbecompletelydeterminedbypartofitscorrelationse-quence.Butforthecaseofameasuredcorrelationsequencethewholesequencemaybeusedtore-ducetheeffectoferroronmodelparameterestimation.Inaddition,thesemethodsnowdonotguar-anteeanonnegativespectralestimate.Inviewoftheabove-mentionedfact,aconstrainedleastsquaresfittingtechniqueisproposedwhichutilizesthewholemeasuredcorrelationsequenceandguar-anteesanonnegativespectralestimate.