TSRUNLENGTH(1) TSRUNLENGTH(1) NAME tsrunlength - find the run lengths of zero free intervals in a time series SYNOPSIS tsrunlength [-v] DESCRIPTION Tsrunlength is for finding the run lengths of zero free intervals in a time series, which is assumed to be a Brownian fractal. The value of each sample in the time series is stored, and the run length to a like value in the time series is stored. A histogram of the number of run lengths of each run length value is printed to stdout as tab delimited columns of run length value, positive run lengths, negative run lengths, and the sum of both positive and negative run lengths, fol- lowed by the cumulative sum of the positive run lengths, the cumulative sum of negative run lengths, and the cumulative sum of both positive and negative run lengths. The idea is to create a run length structure, that tallies how many time intervals a run length was either positive or negative, for each element in the time series. When a run length transition is made, (ie., when the value of the time series has PASSED through the value of the time series when the run length structure was created, from a positive or negative direction,) then the run length is tallied into histogram arrays, and the structure removed. See "Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws," Manfred Schroeder, W. H. Freeman and Company, New York, New York, 1991, ISBN 0-7167-2136-8, pp 160. As approximations for the probability, p, of the run lengths, for t >> 1, p = 1 / (2 * x^(3/2)), which can be integrated for the cumulative probability, P, for t >> 1, P = 1 / sqrt (t). For t ~ 1, P = erf (1 / sqrt (t). Note: there is an issue with this methodology-a run length is not con- sidered complete until the value is PASSED, so, for example, a square wave function input will never be tallied, ie., a 1 to -1 to 1 to -1 to 2 sequence is a negative run length of 3 time units. The input file structure is a text file consisting of records, in tem- poral order, one record per time series sample. Blank records are ignored, and comment records are signified by a '#' character as the first non white space character in the record. Data records must con- tain at least one field, which is the data value of the sample, but may contain many fields-if the record contains many fields, then the first field is regarded as the sample's time, and the last field as the sam- ple's value at that time. OPTIONS -v Print the version and copyright banner of the program. WARNINGS There is little or no provision for handling numerical exceptions. SEE ALSO tsderivative(1), tshcalc(1), tshurst(1), tsintegrate(1), tslogre- turns(1), tslsq(1), tsnormal(1), tsshannon(1), tsblack(1), tsbrown- ian(1), tsdlogistic(1), tsfBm(1), tsfractional(1), tsgaussian(1), tsin- tegers(1), tslogistic(1), tspink(1), tsunfairfractional(1), tswhite(1), tscoin(1), tsunfairbrownian(1), tsfraction(1), tsshannonmax(1), tschangewager(1), tssample(1), tsrms(1), tscoins(1), tsavg(1), tsXsquared(1), tsstockwager(1), tsshannonwindow(1), tsmath(1), tsavgwindow(1), tspole(1), tsdft(1), tsbinomial(1), tsdeterministic(1), tsnumber(1), tsrmswindow(1), tsshannonstock(1), tsmarket(1), tsstock(1), tsstatest(1), tsunfraction(1), tsshannonaggregate(1), tsin- stant(1), tsshannonvolume(1), tsstocks(1), tsshannonfundamental(1), tstrade(1), tstradesim(1), tsrunlength(1), tsunshannon(1), tsroot- mean(1), tsrunmagnitude(1), tskurtosis(1), tskurtosiswindow(1), tsroot- meanscale(1), tsscalederivative(1), tsgain(1), tsgainwindow(1) tscauchy(1), tslognormal(1), tskalman(1), tsroot(1), tslaplacian(1) DIAGNOSTICS Error messages for incompatible arguments, failure to allocate memory, inaccessible files, and opening and closing files. AUTHORS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A license is hereby granted to reproduce this software source code and to create executable versions from this source code for personal, non-commercial use. The copyright notice included with the software must be maintained in all copies produced. THIS PROGRAM IS PROVIDED "AS IS". THE AUTHOR PROVIDES NO WARRANTIES WHATSOEVER, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, TITLE, OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE AUTHOR DOES NOT WARRANT THAT USE OF THIS PROGRAM DOES NOT INFRINGE THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS OF ANY THIRD PARTY IN ANY COUNTRY. Copyright (c) 1994-2006, John Conover, All Rights Reserved. Comments and/or bug reports should be addressed to: john@email.johncon.com (John Conover) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- January 5, 2006 TSRUNLENGTH(1)