Transfer Entropy With Partitioning

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These algorithms are used and described in:

Lee et al.: “Transfer Entropy Estimation and Directional Coupling Change Detection in Biomedical Time Series.” Biomedical Engineering Online 2012 11:19.

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Description

This is a repository of MATLAB functions that can estimate transfer entropy (information flow) from one time series to another using a non-parametric partitioning algorithm. Also included is an example data set that the implemented algorithms can be applied to.

The functions have been tested in MATLAB R2016b on 03 March 2016.

Usage

There are three functions used to calculate transfer entropy between time series using different methods of probability density estimation:

The MAT file 'example_data.mat' contains a 1-D structure array of example data that harnesses an information flow from X to Y at a lag of 2 according to: y(i)=[(1+a)*x(i-2)]^2
Different values of the coupling constant 'a' were simulated, along with associated levels of Laplacian noise given by SNR levels.

Figure 1

Figure 1: Transfer entropy between time series with different coupling constants.Comparison of all 3 algorithms.

Acknowledgments

This package was developed by J. Lee, S. Nemati, and I. Silvia.