UC Santa Barbara

When there is qualitative information about the underlying processes and structure of a dynamical system, it may be possible to infer very accurate quantitative information about these processes using only an output time series from the system. We illustrate how this can be accomplished for time series data from a delay-differential equation with a single fixed delay. Our approach exploits modern techniques for non-parametric function estimation, is robust to fairly high levels of dynamic noise and measurement error, and can be extended straightforwardly to more general delay-differential systems and multivariate systems.