Description of the program: delay


This program produces delay vectors either from a scalar or from a multivariate time series.

Usage:

delay [Options]

Everything not being a valid option will be interpreted as a potential datafile name. Given no datafile at all, means read stdin. Also - means stdin

Possible options are:

Option Description Default
-l# number of data to use whole file
-x# number of lines to be ignored 0
-M# Number of columns to be read 1
-c# column to be read 1,...,# of columns
-m# embedding dimension 2
-F# The format for the embedding vector (see example) not set
-d# delay of the embedding vector 1
-D# list of individual delays (see example) not set
-o# output file name
without file name: 'datafile'.del
(or stdin.del if stdin was read)
If no -o option is given stdout is used
-V# verbosity level
  0: only panic messages
  1: add input/output messages
1
-h show these options none


Example for the -F flag

Suppose a two component time series, with components xi and yi is given. From this series a 5 dimensional delay vector, which consists of 3 delayed x and 2 delayed y, shall be created. This would give delay vectors of the form (suppose the delay is 1)
(xi,xi-1,xi-2,yi, yi-1)
This is achieved by setting: -M2 -F 3,2, which means read 2 components (-M 2) and do the 3,2 (-F 3,2) embedding as shown above.

It is also possible to combine the -M and -m flags. If the value of -m is an integer multiple of the -M value, the program assumes a symmetric embedding. E.g.: -M3 -m9 is the same as -M3 -F3,3,3. In case -m is not a integer multiple of -M the program complains and asks for -F.

-F needs a list of comma separated "partial" dimensions.

Example for the -D flag

The idea of this flag is to allow the construction of delay vectors with varying delays. Suppose a delay vector of the form
(x(i),x(i-d1),x(i-d1-d2))
This is possible with the setting: -m3 -Dd1, d2
-D needs a list of comma separated delays.

Description of the Output:

The delay vectors. Nothing else.
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