title: Estimating Lyapunov exponents in biomedical time series.
abstract: Among nonlinear dynamical invariants, determination of the largest Lyapunov exponent is well suited to positive identification of chaos in observed time series. When analyzing the dynamics of biomedical series, such as an electro-encephalogram (EEG), model-based methods should be used. Moreover, in the absence of any well founded theoretical model, and because of unexplained variability in the data, candidate models must provide for a stochastic component. Here we use nonlinear autoregressive stochastic modeling to estimate the dominant Lyapunov exponent in an EEG series and compute confidence intervals from surrogate data. The results are found to differ from those of approaches which aim at deleting noise prior to analysis.
authors.affiliation: Département de Biostatistique et Informatique Médicale, Hôpital Saint-Louis, and Epidémiologie et Sciences de l'Information, INSERM U444, Faculté de Médecine Saint-Antoine, Paris, France. porcher@dbim.jussieu.fr
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Porcher
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Thomas
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000379:methods*; D015233:Models, Statistical; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D016011:Normal Distribution; D013269:Stochastic Processes; D013997:Time Factors