Summing Locomotor Activity Data into “Bins”: How to Avoid Artifact in Spectral Analysis

Biological Rhythm Research

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 2-14

  Dowse, Harold B ^a   Ringo, John M ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

bin size; biological rhythm; data analysis; digital filter; Spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010523342     PISSN: 09291016     EISSN: 17444179     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09291019409360271     Document Type: Article

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