Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- The Future of Time Series: Learning and Understanding -- Section I. Description of the Data Sets -- Lorenz-Like Chaos in NH3-FIR Lasers (Data Set A) -- Multi-Channel Physiological Data: Description and Analysis (Data Set B) -- Foreign Currency Dealing: A Brief Introduction (Data Set C) -- Whole Earth Telescope Observations of the White Dwarf Star (PG1159-035) (Data Set E) -- Baroque Forecasting: On Completing J. S. Bach’s Last Fugue (Data Set F) -- Section II. Time Series Prediction -- Time Series Prediction by Using Delay Coordinate Embedding (Data Set A) -- Time Series Prediction by Using a Connectionist Network with Internal Delay Lines (Data Set A) -- Simple Architectures on Fast Machines: Practical Issues in Nonlinear Time Series Prediction (Data Sets C,D,F) -- Neural Net Architectures for Temporal Sequence Processing (Data Set C) -- Forecasting Probability Densities by Using Hidden Markov Models with Mixed States (Data Set D) -- Time Series Prediction by Using the Method of Analogues (Data Set A) -- Modeling Time Series by Using Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS) (Data Sets A,B,C) -- Visual Fitting and Extrapolation (Data Set A) -- Does a Meeting in Santa Fe Imply Chaos? (Data Set A) -- Section III. Time Series Analysis and Characterization -- Exploring the Continuum Between Deterministic and Stochastic Modeling (Data Sets A,B,D) -- Estimating Generalized Dimensions and Choosing Time Delays: A Feist Algorithm (Data Sets A,D) -- Identifying and Quantifying Chaos by Using Information-Theoretic Functionals (Data Sets A,D,E) -- A Geometrical Statistic for Detecting Deterministic Dynamics (Data Sets A,B,C,D) -- Detecting Nonlinearity in Data with Long Coherence Times (Data Set E) -- Nonlinear Diagnostics and Simple Trading Rules for High-Frequency Foreign Exchange Rates (Data Set C) -- Noise Reduction by Local Reconstruction of the Dynamics (Data Set A) -- Section IV. Practice and Promise -- Large-Scale Linear Methods for Interpolation, Realization, and Reconstruction of Noisy, Irregularly Sampled Data -- Complex Dynamics in Physiology and Medicine -- Forecasting in Economics -- Finite-Dimensional Spatial Disorder: Description and Analysis -- Spatio-Temporal Patterns: Observations and Analysis -- Appendix: Accessing the Server -- Bibliography -- Index -- .