Reliability of inference of directed climate networks using conditional mutual information

Entropy

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2023-2045

  Hlinka, Jaroslav ^a   Hartman, David ^a   Vejmelka, Martin ^a   Runge, Jakob ^b,c   Marwan, Norbert ^b   Kurths, Jürgen ^b,c,d   Palǔs, Milan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Czech Republic)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Causality; Climate; Network; Nonlinearity; Stability; Transfer entropy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880002507     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e15062023     Document Type: Article

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