Analysis of symbolic sequences using the
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Grosse, Ivo; Bernaola-Galván, Pedro; Carpena, Pedro; Román-Roldán, Ramón; Oliver
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Article
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2002
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The American Physical Society
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English
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We study statistical properties of the Jensen-Shannon divergence D, which quantifies the difference between probability distributions, and which has been widely applied to analyses of symbolic sequences. We present three interpretations of D in the framework of statistical physics, information theor