t2 = 1 ## The error variance. SS = c(5,10,20,40) ## Sample sizes ## Consider these AR(1) coefficients. for (alpha in c(0,0.3,0.6,0.9)) { F = NULL for (k in 1:length(SS)) { ## The sample size. n = SS[k] ## Construct the covariance matrix. C = array(0, c(n,n)) for (i in (1:n)) { for (j in (1:n)) { C[i,j] = alpha^abs(i-j)*t2/(1-alpha^2) } } F[k] = sum(C)/n^2 } print(F) }