Compensated transfer entropy as a tool for reliably estimating information transfer in physiological time series

Entropy

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 198-219

  Faes, Luca ^a   Nollo, Giandomenico ^b   Porta, Alberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular variability; Conditional entropy; Instantaneous causality; Magnetoencephalography; Time delay embedding

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873185183     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e15010198     Document Type: Article

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