Joachim Peinke | PubMed Health

PubMed2006

Reconstruction of complex dynamical systems affected by strong measurement noise.

This Letter reports on a new approach to properly analyze time series of dynamical systems which are spoilt by the simultaneous presence of dynamical noise and measurement noise. It is shown that even strong external measurement noise as well as dynamical noise which is an intrinsic part of the dynamical process can be quantified correctly, solely on the basis of measured time series and proper data analysis. Finally, real world data sets are presented pointing out the relevance of the new approach.

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PubMed2004

Increment definitions for scale-dependent analysis of stochastic data.

It is common for scale-dependent analysis of stochastic data to use the increment Delta(t,r) =xi(t+r)-xi(t) of a data set xi(t) as a stochastic measure, where r denotes the scale. For joint statistics of Delta(t,r) and Delta(t, r') the question of how to nest the increments on different scales r, r' is investigated. Here we show that in some cases spurious correlations between scales can be introduced by the common left-justified definition. The consequences for a Markov process are discussed. These spurious correlations can be avoided by an appropriate nesting of increments. We demonstrate this effect for different data sets and show how it can be detected and quantified. The problem allows to propose a unique method to distinguish between experimental data generated by a noiselike or a Langevin-like random-walk process, respectively.

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