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Correlation dimension can be calculated using the distances
between each pair of points in the set of N number of points,
A correlation function, C(r), is then calculated using,
C(r) has been found to follow a power law similar to the one seen in
the capacity dimension:
.
Therefore, we can find
Dcorr with estimation techniques derived from the formula:
C(r) can be written in a more mathematical form as
where
is the Heaviside step function described as,
Sandip Thanki
1999-07-29