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A new program RIVER for evaluating the fractal dimension of real data sets was written. Its performance was compared with two programs HarFA — demo version and Coastline, available in Internet. The three programs were tested on about 50 data sets. The program RIVER yielded the maximal errors less than 3 percentages for all tested data sets, while the other tested programs gave more than 10 percentage errors.
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Szustalewicz, A. (2005). Numerical problems with evaluating the fractal dimension of real data. In: Pejaś, J., Piegat, A. (eds) Enhanced Methods in Computer Security, Biometric and Artificial Intelligence Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-23484-5_27
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