Reliable Estimation of Minimum Embedding Dimension Through Statistical Analysis of Nearest Neighbors
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Article
Date of Original Version
2017
Abstract
False nearest neighbors (FNN) is one of the essential methods used in estimating the minimally sufficient embedding dimension in delay-coordinate embedding of deterministic time series. Its use for stochastic and noisy deterministic time series is problematic and erroneously indicates a finite embedding dimension. Various modifications to the original method have been proposed to mitigate this problem, but those are still not reliable for noisy time series. Here, nearest-neighbor statistics are studied for uncorrelated random time series and contrasted with the corresponding deterministic and stochastic statistics. New composite FNN metrics are constructed and their performance is evaluated for deterministic, correlates stochastic, and white random time series. In addition, noise-contaminated deterministic data analysis shows that these composite FNN metrics are robust to noise. All FNN results are also contrasted with surrogate data analysis to show their robustness. The new metrics clearly identify random time series as not having a finite embedding dimension and provide information about the deterministic part of correlated stochastic processes. These metrics can also be used to differentiate between chaotic and random time series.
Citation/Publisher Attribution
Chelidze, D. (2017). Reliable Estimation of Minimum Embedding Dimension Through Statistical Analysis of Nearest Neighbors. J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam., 12(5), 051024. doi: 10.1115/1.4036814
Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.4036814
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