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José M Amigó1, Matthew B Kennel
1Centro de Investigación Operativa, Universidad Miguel Hernández, 03202 Elche, Spain.
Abstract:
Lempel and Ziv's 1976 algorithm provides an easy-to-compute way to automatically estimate the entropy rate for symbolic time series, requiring no free parameters. Here we derive an analytical variance estimate for the Lempel-Ziv entropy rate estimator that is easily computable from observations with negligible extra effort beyond the entropy rate itself, and compare to another procedure, a time-series-based bootstrap method. These provide a justified "error bar" quantifying the size of expected fluctuations on the estimate itself, given by the single time series of symbols.
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