RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 IDTxl: The Information Dynamics Toolkit xl: a Python package for the efficient analysis of multivariate information dynamics in networks A1 Wollstadt, Patricia A1 Lizier, Joseph A1 Vicente, Raul A1 Finn, Conor A1 Martínez Zarzuela, Mario A1 Mediano, Pedro A1 Novelli, Leonardo A1 Wibral, Michael AB We present IDTxl (the Information Dynamics Toolkit xl), a new open source Python toolbox for effective network inference from multivariate time series using information theory, available from GitHub (https://github.com/pwollstadt/IDTxl).Information theory (Cover & Thomas, 2006; MacKay, 2003; Shannon, 1948) is the math- ematical theory of information and its transmission over communication channels. In- formation theory provides quantitative measures of the information content of a single random variable (entropy) and of the information shared between two variables (mutual information). The defined measures build on probability theory and solely depend on the probability distributions of the variables involved. As a consequence, the dependence between two variables can be quantified as the information shared between them, without the need to explicitly model a specific type of dependence. Hence, mutual information is a model-free measure of dependence, which makes it a popular choice for the analysis of systems other than communication channels. PB Open Journals SN 2475-9066 LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/64344 UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/64344 LA eng NO Wollstadt et al., (2019). IDTxl: The Information Dynamics Toolkit xl: a Python package for the efficient analysis of multivariate information dynamics in networks. Journal of Open Source Software, 4(34), 1081, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.01081 NO Producción Científica DS UVaDOC RD 07-ago-2024