| AME | adaptive MSE |
| ApEN | approximate entropy |
| AR | autoregressive |
| ARFIMA | autoregressive fractionnaly integrated moving average |
| ARMA | autoregressive with moving average |
| CFIT | controlled flight into terrain |
| CG | coarse-graining |
| CMSE | composite MSE |
| COSEn | coefficient of the sample entropy |
| dfBm | discrete fractional Brownian motion |
| dfGn | discrete fractional Gaussian noise |
| DE | dispersion entropy |
| EMD | empirical mode decomposition |
| ECG | electrocardiogram |
| EEG | electroencephalogram |
| ER | Eckmann–Ruelle |
| FI | fractionally integrated |
| FIR | finite impulse response |
| FuzEn | fuzzy entropy |
| HE | hierarchical Entropy |
| IIR | infinite impulse response |
| IMEn | intrinsic mode entropy |
| IMFs | intrinsic mode functions |
| IMPE | improved multiscale PE |
| KS | Kolmogorov–Sinai |
| LZ | Lempel–Ziv |
| MEMD | multivariate EMD |
| MFE | multiscale fuzzy sample entropy |
| MFPE | multiscale fractional-order PE |
| MGMSE | multivariate generalized MSE |
| MGrcMSE | multivariate generalized rcMSE |
| MMSE | modified MSE |
| MrcMSE | multivariate |
| MSampEn | multivariate sample entropy |
| MSE | multiscale entropy |
| MSSE | multiscale symbolic entropy analysis |
| mv | multivariate |
| mvMPE | mv multiscale PE |
| PE | permutation entropy |
| PSD | power spectral density |
| rcMFE | refined composite multiscale fuzzy entropy |
| rcMPE | refined composite multiscale permutation entropy |
| rcMSE | refined composite MSE |
| rMSE | refined MSE |
| SE | sample entropy |
| SV | singular value |
| SVD | singular value decomposition |
| TSMBE | time shift multiscale bubble entropy |
| WPE | weighted permutation entropy |
| WMFPE | weighted multiscale fractional-order PE |