In looking for references to the mathematical properties of data curves
that have flowing shapes I searched for various combinations of
"systems, flow, curve, continuity, slope, data, shape" and came up with
nothing. I also checked my copy of Hamilton's exhaustive "Time Series
Analysis", also missing the subject, as were all my other statistical
analysis books. Then it occurred to me that flowing shape in the
curves of complex systems is really the symptom of systems where it
takes a process to change a process, and thought some reference might
come up under 'cybernetics'.
I did come up with a nice newer summary article on cybernetics by Chris
Joslyn of Los Alamos with Frances Heylighen
[
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Papers/Cybernetics-EPST.pdf], but still no
reference to how to measure the physical property of systems that
corresponds to approximate mathematical continuity in the flowing shapes
of their data curves. I'm developing tests using statistical measures
for the lack of 'zig zaggyness' of data curves (as an indicator of
smooth progression in shape). Any help?
Phil Henshaw ????.?? ? `?.????
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