Kolmogorov Complexity

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Estimate of the Kolmogorov complexity of a finite time series.
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This function estiamtes the Kolmogorov Complexity of a binary sequence. The algorithm is as described in Lempel and Ziv (IEEE trans inf theory IT-22, 75 (1976)) and Kaspar and Schuster (Physical Review A, vol 36, no 2, pg 842).
Input is binary sequence, output is kolmogorov complexity.

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Stephen Faul (2026). Kolmogorov Complexity (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/6886-kolmogorov-complexity), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

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