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. 2011 Oct 10;10:90. doi: 10.1186/1475-925X-10-90

Table 5.

List of Recurrence plot features

Short name Description
%Recurrence Represents the number of recurrences among the total number of possible recurrences.

%Determinism Represents the number of recurrence points that are part of a diagonal of at least lminelements (usually lmin = 2), divided by the number of recurrences.

%Laminarity Corresponds to the computation of %Determinism, but considering vertical (or horizontal) lines instead of diagonal lines.

Trapping Time Represents the number of recurrence points that are part of vertical (or horizontal) lines, divided by the number of vertical (or horizontal) lines.

%Determinism/%Recurrence This ratio is often used to detect transitions of the dynamics.

Segment lengths The mean and maximum lengths of diagonal and vertical (or horizontal) lines.

Shannon entropy Same feature presented in the informational domain, but applied to the distributions of the lines (either diagonal or vertical/horizontal).

Kolmogorov entropy The slope of the line fitting the log-log plot of the distribution of diagonal lines as a function of the threshold used to create the recurrence plot.