ccm uses time delay embedding on one time series to generate an attractor reconstruction, and then applies the simplex projection algorithm to estimate concurrent values of another time series. This method is typically applied, varying the library sizes, to determine if one time series contains the necessary dynamic information to recover the influence of another, causal variable.

ccm(block, lib = c(1, NROW(block)), pred = lib, norm = 2, E = 1,
tau = 1, tp = 0, num_neighbors = "e+1", lib_sizes = seq(10, 100,
by = 10), random_libs = TRUE, num_samples = 100, replace = TRUE,
lib_column = 1, target_column = 2, first_column_time = FALSE,
RNGseed = NULL, exclusion_radius = NULL, epsilon = NULL,
stats_only = TRUE, silent = FALSE)

## Arguments

block either a vector to be used as the time series, or a data.frame or matrix where each column is a time series a 2-column matrix (or 2-element vector) where each row specifies the first and last *rows* of the time series to use for attractor reconstruction (same format as lib), but specifying the sections of the time series to forecast. the distance measure to use. see 'Details' the embedding dimensions to use for time delay embedding the lag to use for time delay embedding the prediction horizon (how far ahead to forecast) the number of nearest neighbors to use. Note that the default value will change depending on the method selected. (any of "e+1", "E+1", "e + 1", "E + 1" will peg this parameter to E+1 for each run, any value < 1 will use all possible neighbors.) the vector of library sizes to try indicates whether to use randomly sampled libs is the number of random samples at each lib size (this parameter is ignored if random_libs is FALSE) indicates whether to sample vectors with replacement the index (or name) of the column to cross map from the index (or name) of the column to forecast indicates whether the first column of the given block is a time column (and therefore excluded when indexing) will set a seed for the random number generator, enabling reproducible runs of ccm with randomly generated libraries excludes vectors from the search space of nearest neighbors if their *time index* is within exclusion_radius (NULL turns this option off) excludes vectors from the search space of nearest neighbors if their *distance* is farther away than epsilon (NULL turns this option off) specify whether to output just the forecast statistics or the raw predictions for each run prevents warning messages from being printed to the R console

## Value

A data.frame with forecast statistics for the different parameter settings:

 L library length (number of vectors) num_pred number of predictions rho correlation coefficient between observations and predictions mae mean absolute error rmse root mean square error

## Details

The default parameters are set so that passing a matrix as the only argument will use E = 1 (embedding dimension), and leave-one-out cross-validation over the whole time series to compute cross-mapping from the first column to the second column, letting the library size vary from 10 to 100 in increments of 10.

norm = 2 (default) uses the "L2 norm", Euclidean distance: $$distance(a,b) := \sqrt{\sum_i{(a_i - b_i)^2}}$$ norm = 1 uses the "L1 norm", Manhattan distance: $$distance(a,b) := \sum_i{|a_i - b_i|}$$ Other values generalize the L1 and L2 norm to use the given argument as the exponent, P, as: $$distance(a,b) := \sum_i{(a_i - b_i)^P}^{1/P}$$

## Examples

data("sardine_anchovy_sst")
anchovy_xmap_sst <- ccm(sardine_anchovy_sst, E = 3,
lib_column = "anchovy", target_column = "np_sst",
lib_sizes = seq(10, 80, by = 10), num_samples = 100)#> Warning: Note: CCM results are typically interpreted in the opposite direction of causation. Please see 'Detecting causality in complex ecosystems' (Sugihara et al. 2012) for more details.#> Warning: Found overlap between lib and pred. Enabling cross-validation with exclusion radius = 0.