DN_Burstiness.m

function out = DN_Burstiness(y)
% DN_Burstiness     Burstiness statistic of a time series
%
% Returns the 'burstiness' statistic from
%
% Goh and Barabasi, 'Burstiness and memory in complex systems' Europhys. Lett.
% 81, 48002 (2008).
%
%---INPUT:
% y, the input time series
%
%---OUTPUT:
% The burstiness statistic, B.

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% Copyright (C) 2020, Ben D. Fulcher <ben.d.fulcher@gmail.com>,
% <http://www.benfulcher.com>
%
% If you use this code for your research, please cite the following two papers:
%
% (1) B.D. Fulcher and N.S. Jones, "hctsa: A Computational Framework for Automated
% Time-Series Phenotyping Using Massive Feature Extraction, Cell Systems 5: 527 (2017).
% DOI: 10.1016/j.cels.2017.10.001
%
% (2) B.D. Fulcher, M.A. Little, N.S. Jones, "Highly comparative time-series
% analysis: the empirical structure of time series and their methods",
% J. Roy. Soc. Interface 10(83) 20130048 (2013).
% DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2013.0048
%
% This function is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
% the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
% Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later
% version.
%
% This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
% ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
% FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more
% details.
%
% You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
% this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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r = std(y)/mean(y); % coefficient of variation

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% Original Goh and Barabasi burstiness statistic, B:
out.B = (r - 1)/(r + 1);
% B = (std(y) - mean(y))/(std(y) + mean(y));

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% Improved burstiness statistic, accounting for scaling for finite time series
% Kim and Jo, 2016, http://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.01125v1.pdf
N = length(y);
out.B_Kim = (sqrt(N+1)*r - sqrt(N-1))/((sqrt(N+1)-2)*r + sqrt(N-1));

end