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	تحلیل کمی بازگشت (RQA)	آنتروپی انتقال
حوزه	سیستم‌های پیچیده	استنتاج علّی
خانواده	Machine learning	Machine learning
سال پیدایش	2007	2000
پدیدآور	Marwan, Romano, Thiel & Kurths	Thomas Schreiber
نوع	Nonlinear time-series characterization	Non-parametric information-theoretic measure
منبع بنیادین	Marwan, N., Romano, M. C., Thiel, M., & Kurths, J. (2007). Recurrence plots for the analysis of complex systems. Physics Reports, 438(5–6), 237–329.	Schreiber, T. (2000). Measuring information transfer. Physical Review Letters, 85(2), 461–464.
نام‌های دیگر	RQA, Recurrence Plot Analysis, Nonlinear Recurrence Analysis, Tekrarlama Kantifikasyon Analizi	Schreiber Information Transfer, Directed Information Flow, Conditional Mutual Information (directed), Transfer Entropisi
مرتبط	2	3
خلاصه	Recurrence Quantification Analysis (RQA) is a nonlinear method for characterizing the dynamics of a time series by quantifying the small-scale structure of its recurrence plot. Introduced in its modern, comprehensive form by Marwan, Romano, Thiel, and Kurths in 2007, RQA extracts scalar measures — such as recurrence rate, determinism, laminarity, and Shannon entropy — that capture periodicity, chaos, stationarity, and transitions in complex dynamical systems.	Transfer Entropy (TE) is a non-parametric, information-theoretic measure of directed statistical dependence between two time series, introduced by Thomas Schreiber in 2000. Grounded in Shannon entropy, it quantifies how much information the past of one process Y reduces uncertainty about the next state of another process X, beyond what X's own past already provides. Unlike linear correlation or Granger causality, TE captures nonlinear interactions and requires no model assumptions about the underlying dynamics.