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IDTxl

The Information Dynamics Toolkit xl (IDTxl) is a comprehensive software package for efficient inference of networks and their node dynamics from multivariate time series data using information theory. IDTxl provides functionality to estimate the following measures:

1) For network inference:

IDTxl implements estimators for discrete and continuous data with parallel computing engines for both GPU and CPU platforms. Written for Python3.4.3+.

To get started have a look at the wiki and the documentation. For further discussions, join IDTxl's google group.

How to cite

P. Wollstadt, J. T. Lizier, R. Vicente, C. Finn, M. Martinez-Zarzuela, P. Mediano, L. Novelli, M. Wibral (2018). 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.

Contributors

How to contribute? We are happy about any feedback on IDTxl. If you would like to contribute, please open an issue or send a pull request with your feature or improvement. Also have a look at the developer's section in the Wiki for details.

Acknowledgements

This project has been supported by funding through:

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