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Forecasting complexity

Forecasting complexity is a measure of complexity put forward by the physicist Peter Grassberger.

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Forecasting complexity is a measure of complexity put forward (under the original name of) by the physicist Peter Grassberger.123

It was later renamed "statistical complexity" by James P. Crutchfield and Karl Young.45

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  2. Grassberger, P. (2012). "Randomness, Information, and Complexity". arXiv:1208.3459 [physics].
  3. Funes, P. "Complexity measures for complex systems and complex objects". Retrieved 2012-08-04.
  4. Crutchfield, J.; Young, Karl (1989). "Inferring statistical complexity". Physical Review Letters. 63 (2): 105–108. Bibcode:1989PhRvL..63..105C. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.63.105. PMID 10040781.
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