conclusions the loss of hrc at the onset of admission may predict mortality in patients with blunt trauma. lower entropy, in recently admitted patients with intra-abdominal bleeding, may indicate laparotomy when the vital signs are stable. background nonlinear analysis of heart rate variability (hrv) has been recently used as a predictor of prognosis in trauma patients. objectives we applied no...

Abstract Hidden Markov chains are widely applied statistical models of stochastic processes, from fundamental physics and chemistry to finance, health, artificial intelligence. The hidden processes they generate notoriously complicated, however, even if the chain is finite state: no expression for their Shannon entropy rate exists, as set predictive features generically infinite. As such, date ...

We introduce the entropy rate of multidimensional cellular automata. This number is invariant under shift–commuting isomorphisms; as opposed to the entropy of such CA, it is always finite. The invariance property and the finiteness of the entropy rate result from basic results about the entropy of partitions of multidimensional cellular automata. We prove several results that show that entropy ...