Evaluation of mutual information estimators on nonlinear dynamic systems

Details Evaluation of mutual information estimators on nonlinear dynamic systems Evaluation of mutual information estimators on nonlinear dynamic systems

2008-09-12

arxiv.org/abs/0809.2149v1

Nonlinear Phenomena in Complex Systems, Vol 11, No 2, pp 225-232, 2008

Nonlinear Sciences

Chaotic Dynamics

8 pages, 10 figures, 1 table,

Scientific paper

Mutual information is a nonlinear measure used in time series analysis in order to measure the linear and non-linear correlations at any lag $\tau$. The aim of this study is to evaluate some of the most commonly used mutual information estimators, i.e. estimators based on histograms (with fixed or adaptive bin size), $k$-nearest neighbors and kernels. We assess the accuracy of the estimators by Monte-Carlo simulations on time series from nonlinear dynamical systems of varying complexity. As the true mutual information is generally unknown, we investigate the existence and rate of consistency of the estimators (convergence to a stable value with the increase of time series length), and the degree of deviation among the estimators. The results show that the $k$-nearest neighbor estimator is the most stable and less affected by the method-specific parameter.

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