Milan Palus
Institute of Computer Science,
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Pod vodárenskou vezí 2,
182 07 Prague 8, Czech Republic
E-mail: mp@uivt.cas.cz, mp@santafe.edu
Dirk Hoyer
Institute for Pathophysiology,
Clinical Center of
Friedrich-Schiller-University
07740 Jena, Germany
A hypothesis testing approach utilizing the technique of surrogate data is used for detecting nonlinearity and phase synchronization in bivariate time series. Instantaneous phases are obtained by means of discrete Hilbert transform. Information-theoretic functionals -- redundancies are used as the test statistics. Described methods are illustrated in detecting certain nonlinearities and synchronization in cardio-respiratory interactions in the case of a newborn piglet during quiet sleep.