The Lomb-Scargle periodogram in biological rhythm research: Analysis of incomplete and unequally spaced time-series

Biological Rhythm Research

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 178-201

  Ruf, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Circadian rhythms; Missing data; Periodogram methods; Power spectra; Spectral analysis; Telemetry; Ultradian rhythms; Uneven sampling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DATA ANALYSIS; ENTROPY; SPECTROSCOPY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TELEMETRY;

EID: 0032791876     PISSN: 09291016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/brhm.30.2.178.1422     Document Type: Article

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