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Complexity science

a statistic that quantifies how unpredictable a time series is by checking how often similar patterns stay similar.

In complexity science, approximate entropy refers to a statistic that quantifies how unpredictable a time series is by checking how often similar patterns stay similar. This meaning comes from Pincus (1991) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[1]

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References

Pincus, S. M. (1991). Approximate entropy as a measure of system complexity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 88(6), 2297-2301. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.88.6.2297

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