A Brief Overview of Multifractal Time Series

• Part 1: Fractal behavior in time series
• Part 2: Using wavelets to detect singular behavior
• Part 3: The fractal dimension of the singular behavior
• Part 4: The singularity spectra of multifractal signals
• Part 5: What one learns from the singularity spectra of multifractal signals
• Part 6: Multifractality of healthy human heart rate
• Bibliography
  

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