Nonstationarity and 1/f noise characteristics in heart rate

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 276, Issue 1 45-1, 1999, Pages

  Pilgram, Berndt ^a,b   Kaplan, Daniel T ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c MACALESTER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Control; Model; Power law; Self similarity; Surrogate data

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DATA ANALYSIS; HEART RATE; HISTOGRAM; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032916303     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1999.276.1.r1     Document Type: Article

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