How to avoid potential pitfalls in recurrence plot based data analysis

International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1003-1017

  Marwan, Norbert ^a,b  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

pitfalls; Recurrence plot; recurrence quantification analysis; time series analysis

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; MULTIVARIABLE CONTROL SYSTEMS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

DEEP FOUNDATIONS; PITFALLS; POTENTIAL PROBLEMS; RECURRENCE PLOT; RECURRENCE QUANTIFICATION ANALYSIS;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 79959380525     PISSN: 02181274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218127411029008     Document Type: Review

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