eprintid: 1572407 rev_number: 36 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/01/57/24/07 datestamp: 2018-01-29 17:48:42 lastmod: 2021-11-15 02:59:47 status_changed: 2018-01-29 17:48:42 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Aste, T creators_name: Di Matteo, T title: Sparse Causality Network Retrieval from Short Time Series ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C05 divisions: F48 note: Copyright © 2017 Tomaso Aste and T. Di Matteo. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. abstract: We investigate how efficiently a known underlying sparse causality structure of a simulated multivariate linear process can be retrieved from the analysis of time series of short lengths. Causality is quantified from conditional transfer entropy and the network is constructed by retaining only the statistically validated contributions. We compare results from three methodologies: two commonly used regularization methods, Glasso and ridge, and a newly introduced technique, LoGo, based on the combination of information filtering network and graphical modelling. For these three methodologies we explore the regions of time series lengths and model-parameters where a significant fraction of true causality links is retrieved. We conclude that when time series are short, with their lengths shorter than the number of variables, sparse models are better suited to uncover true causality links with LoGo retrieving the true causality network more accurately than Glasso and ridge. date: 2017 date_type: published publisher: WILEY-HINDAWI official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/4518429 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1298017 doi: 10.1155/2017/4518429 lyricists_name: Aste, Tomaso lyricists_id: TASTE72 actors_name: Allington-Smith, Dominic actors_id: DAALL44 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Complexity volume: 2017 article_number: 4518429 pages: 13 issn: 1099-0526 citation: Aste, T; Di Matteo, T; (2017) Sparse Causality Network Retrieval from Short Time Series. Complexity , 2017 , Article 4518429. 10.1155/2017/4518429 <https://doi.org/10.1155/2017%2F4518429>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1572407/7/4518429.pdf