  Using the concept of the geometric measures of redundance and irrelevance
tradeoff exponent (RITE)}, we present a new method to determine suitable delay
times for continuous systems. After applying the RITE algorithm to both
simulation and experimental observations, we find the results obtained are
close to those obtained from the criterion of the average mutual information
(AMI), while the RITE algorithm has the following advantages: simple
implementation, reasonable computational cost and robust performance against
observational noise.
