English

Revisiting algorithms for generating surrogate time series

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability 2015-06-03 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science Chaotic Dynamics

Abstract

The method of surrogates is one of the key concepts of nonlinear data analysis. Here, we demonstrate that commonly used algorithms for generating surrogates often fail to generate truly linear time series. Rather, they create surrogate realizations with Fourier phase correlations leading to non-detections of nonlinearities. We argue that reliable surrogates can only be generated, if one tests separately for static and dynamic nonlinearities.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1111.1414,
  title  = {Revisiting algorithms for generating surrogate time series},
  author = {C. Raeth and M. Gliozzi and I. E. Papadakis and W. Brinkmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.1414},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

5 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in PRL

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