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A Mutual Information Approach to Calculating Nonlinearity

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 نشر من قبل Reginald Smith
 تاريخ النشر 2015
  مجال البحث الهندسة المعلوماتية
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 تأليف Reginald D. Smith




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A new method to measure nonlinear dependence between two variables is described using mutual information to analyze the separate linear and nonlinear components of dependence. This technique, which gives an exact value for the proportion of linear dependence, is then compared with another common test for linearity, the Brock, Dechert and Scheinkman (BDS) test.



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