physlett90

Abstract

Symbolic dynamics from biological time series.
Alain Destexhe

Physics Letters A 143: 373-378, 1990.

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Abstract
A method is outlined for estimating the order of a Markov process, and applied to both model and experimental time series. Unexpected high values are seen for heart and brain recordings, showing that for these systems the succession of time intervals between patterns exhibits intimate correlations.