A comparison of analytical methods for the study of Fractional Brownian motion

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 537-543

  Fischer, Russell ^a   Akay, Metin ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersional analysis; Fractals; Fractional Brownian motion; Heart rate variability; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CARDIOLOGY; FRACTALS; RANDOM PROCESSES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; DISPERSIVE ANALYSIS; FRACTIONAL BROWNIAN MOTION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATOR; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HEART RATE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVEFORM;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FRACTALS; HEART RATE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0030199375     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02648114     Document Type: Review

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