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The permutation entropy (PE) is a widely used as an effective complexity measurement algorithm, but it is not suitable for the complexity description of multi-dimensional data. In this paper, in order to better measure the complexity of multi-dimensional time series, we proposed a modified multivariable PE (MMPE) algorithm with principal component analysis (PCA) dimensionality reduction, which is a new multi-dimensional time series complexity measurement algorithm. The analysis results of different chaotic systems verify that MMPE is effective. Moreover, we applied it to the comlexity analysis of EEG data. It shows that the person during mental arithmetic task has higher complexity comparing with the state before mental arithmetic task. 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