A Statistical Measure of Complexity
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
2010-09-09 v1 Information Theory
math.IT
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Abstract
In this chapter, a statistical measure of complexity is introduced and some of its properties are discussed. Also, some straightforward applications are shown.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1009.1498,
title = {A Statistical Measure of Complexity},
author = {Ricardo Lopez-Ruiz and Hector Mancini and Xavier Calbet},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.1498},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
23 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables; Chapter to appear in the e-Book "Recent Advances in Generalized Information Measures and Statistics", Kowalski, Rossignoli & Curado (Eds.), Ed. Bentham Science, 2010