TSEntropies - Time Series Entropies
Computes various entropies of given time series. This is
the initial version that includes ApEn() and SampEn() functions
for calculating approximate entropy and sample entropy.
Approximate entropy was proposed by S.M. Pincus in "Approximate
entropy as a measure of system complexity", Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,
88, 2297-2301 (March 1991). Sample entropy was proposed by J.
S. Richman and J. R. Moorman in "Physiological time-series
analysis using approximate entropy and sample entropy",
American Journal of Physiology, Heart and Circulatory
Physiology, 278, 2039-2049 (June 2000). This package also
contains FastApEn() and FastSampEn() functions for calculating
fast approximate entropy and fast sample entropy. These are
newly designed very fast algorithms, resulting from the
modification of the original algorithms. The calculated values
of these entropies are not the same as the original ones, but
the entropy trend of the analyzed time series determines
equally reliably. Their main advantage is their speed, which is
up to a thousand times higher. A scientific article describing
their properties has been submitted to The Journal of
Supercomputing and in present time it is waiting for the
acceptance.