Reference

This page provides you with the source code and results of

Naro D, Rummel C, Schindler K, Andrzejak RG  (2014):  Detecting determinism with improved sensitivity in time series: Rank-based nonlinear predictability score. Phys. Rev. E. 90:032913

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In order to fully understand the following resources, you should read the manuscript. To find the pdf-file, please follow the link at the top of this page.

Source code

The source code NaroRummelSchindlerAndrzejak.m (link at the bottom of the page) calculates the amplitude-based nonlinear prediction error E and rank-based nonlinear prediction score S. It is commented and should not contain any bugs. If you find problems in it, please contact us. 

Results obtained for the Bern-Barcelona-EEG Database
 
The Matlab file ResultsNaro2014.mat (linked at the bottom of this page) contains four variables: Efocal, Enonfocal, Sfocal, and Snonfocal. All four variables are a matrix of 3750x20. The 3750 correspond to the 3750 individual EEG signals. The 20 corresponds to the 1 original (first entry) and 19 surrogates (entry 2 to 20). "E" stands for the amplitude-based nonlinear prediction error, and "S" stands for the rank-based nonlinear prediction score. The terms "focal" and "nonfocal" indicate just what the name suggests.
 
Very important note

If you want to reproduce the results for the original EEG time series exactly, you at first have to filter and the downsample the signal. The parameters are given in the manuscript and matlab routines for the filtering are provided along with the Bern-Barcelona-EEG Database. On the page of this database we also explain why the results for the stochastic surrogates will always be different (please see under "Important remark").

•  Matlab file containing results of the manuscript
•  Matlab source code to compute the measures S and E
•  Identical material mirrowed at library page: e-Repositori

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