MuTE: A MATLAB toolbox to compare established and novel estimators of the multivariate transfer entropy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Montalto, Alessandro ^a   Faes, Luca ^b   Marinazzo, Daniele ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BINNING ESTIMATOR; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; LINEAR ESTIMATOR; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEAREST NEIGHBOR ESTIMATOR; NON UNIFORM EMBEDDING; NORMAL HUMAN; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TRANSFER ENTROPY; UNIFORM EMBEDDING; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENTROPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENTROPY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ROC CURVE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84908052891     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0109462     Document Type: Article

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