Extracting individual variable information for their decoupling, direct mutual information and multi-feature Granger causality
Abstract
Working with multiple variables they usually contain difficult to control complex dependencies. This article proposes extraction of their individual information, e.g. as random variable containing information from , but with removed information about , by using reversible normalization. One application can be decoupling of individual information of variables: reversibly transform together containing the same information, but being independent: . It requires detailed models of complex conditional probability distributions - it is generally a difficult task, but here can be done through multiple dependency reducing iterations, using imperfect methods (here HCR: Hierarchical Correlation Reconstruction). It could be also used for direct mutual information - evaluating direct information transfer: without use of intermediate variables. For causality direction there is discussed multi-feature Granger causality, e.g. to trace various types of individual information transfers between such decoupled variables, including propagation time (delay).
Cite
@article{arxiv.2311.13431,
title = {Extracting individual variable information for their decoupling, direct mutual information and multi-feature Granger causality},
author = {Jarek Duda},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.13431},
year = {2023}
}
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3 pages, 1 figure