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Definition: VAR stands for Vector Autoregression, a kind of model of related time series. In the simplest example, the vector of data points at each time t (yt) is thought of as a parameter vector (say, phi1) times a previous value of the data vector, plus a vector of errors about which some distribution is assumed. Such a model may have autoregression going back further in time than t-1 too.

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